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AFTER FIVE DAYS OF VOTE COUNTING, ALL THAT WAS clear in last week's Philippine presidential election was which of the seven candidates had lost. They included House Speaker Ramon Mitra and Vice President Salvador Laurel, nominees of the country's two largest parties. Imelda Marcos, the former President's widow, was sixth, and Eduardo Cojuangco, a longtime Marcos colleague, was third...
...myth: at its core, Los Angeles is a blue-collar and workaday town. Its residents tend to drive pickups or subcompacts, not Beemers and Rollses. They wear jeans and baseball caps and speak in accents redolent of Oklahoma or Texas, Ohio or New York, Mexico or El Salvador, Vietnam or Korea. Few Angelenos have ever seen a movie star. Many have never even seen Rodeo Drive, much less shopped there. Black, white, brown and yellow, they have created little communities that frequently resemble the places they left behind. In the poorest of those communities, the streets...
Diaz a Cambridge resident who is a citizen of El Salvador, said Behenna often cursed at him, laughed at this questions, and on there orfour occasions made derogatory references to hisethnic background...
...which funnels money to PBS and its member stations, was delayed early this month after conservative Senators railed against the alleged leftward tilt of the shows. Republican John McCain of Arizona blasted Maria's Story, the profile of a peasant woman who joined the left-wing insurgency in El Salvador, which aired last summer. Minority leader Robert Dole criticized PBS election commentators Bill Moyers and former Washington Post editor William Grieder -- "two excellent journalists who also / happen to be two excellent liberal Democrats...
...immediate postwar years, we implemented a two-pronged strategy to blunt Moscow's main thrust in Europe, using military power to deter aggression and economic power through the Marshall Plan to counter the communist ideological challenge. We later beat back Soviet salients in Korea, the Philippines, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Angola, Afghanistan and elsewhere...