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...what happens when that word is mistaken for embarazar, a Spanish word that sounds the same but means "to become pregnant." Moreover, many U.S. Hispanics have grown up hearing so much Spanglish that they are not sure which words are really English. Says Pedro Pedraza of the Puerto Rican studies department at Manhattan's Hunter College: "I've heard of Puerto Rican kids asking their parents how to say 'ice cream' in English...
...Benjamin Viera, 37, a native New Yorker married to a Puerto Rican wife who speaks Spanish around the house, bilingual education used to mean trouble in communicating with his son, now going into eighth grade. Six years ago Viera switched the boy out of a bilingual program and into regular classes. "I'd talk to him in English at home, and he couldn't understand me," complains Viera. "He'd go and ask his mother what I said. His teacher was giving him Spanish all day and very little English...
...guide as to what kind of neighborhood a visitor has wandered into. Says Dem ocratic Ward Committeeman Jesus Garcia: "You can tell where you are from the sounds and the smell of the cooking. In Mexican areas people are doing the taco thing with beans and rice; in Puerto Rican areas it's roast pork and fried rice. If you walk around Pilsen (a Mexican enclave) you'll hear mariachi music; in (Puerto Rican) Humboldt Park you'll hear salsa and conga drums...
Already Costa Rica has downgraded diplomatic relations with Nicaragua over recent border incidents. Two of its civil guardsmen were killed in an ambush that it blames on the Nicaraguan army; Managua denies responsibility. In addition, a 40-man Costa Rican patrol that went to retrieve one of the bodies was shelled from Nicaraguan territory, even though Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto had been advised of the operation and had promised no interference...
...Reagan Administration was also under fire from many Costa Ricans, including several Legislative Assembly deputies, who are incensed that 21 U.S. military trainers recently arrived to instruct 750 civil guardsmen. Both U.S. and Costa Rican officials say that the three-month program is nothing more than routine police training, and insist that Costa Rica's neutral status (the country has no armed forces) will not be affected. But many in Costa Rica fear that the U.S. presence might signal the first step toward forming an army...