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...juvenile delinquent!" yelled demonstrators. COLUMBUS MURDERED A CONTINENT read one of the placards. Last July a group of protesters dressed as South American Indians appeared unannounced in Spain, wearing loincloths, their faces and bodies painted. The invaders peacefully entered the shrine of the nation's patron saint at Santiago de Compostela. They left flowers and other offerings and a message to ask "forgiveness for those who used his name to conquer, murder and destroy peoples...
...give way to parrots, fasciated tiger herons -- a hunter of large fish and snakes that looks like it is wearing a herringbone overcoat -- and other lowland creatures. We settled for the night at Amazonia Lodge, a former tea plantation across from the tiny river port of Atalaya. The owner, Santiago Yabar, tells us that he first visited the plantation as a tax collector in the 1970s, then later bought it and transformed its run-down buildings into an extremely agreeable...
...lathes. Iraq in turn has helped make Cardoen, 48, one of the richest men in Chile; his firm, Cardoen Industries, has grossed $400 million from the cluster bombs alone. No wonder that until recently, Cardoen kept President Saddam Hussein's portrait hanging in a place of honor in his Santiago factory...
...Allende is here!" shouted the thousands who gathered to witness the reburial of a former President. In a government-sanctioned ceremony, the remains of Salvador Allende Gossens were moved from a family plot to Santiago's central cemetery, alongside Chile's other past presidents. A Marxist who tried to introduce radical reform, Allende died, reputedly a suicide, as troops stormed the presidential palace during a 1973 coup that led to 16 years of military rule. Current President Patricio Aylwin, who supported Allende's ouster but quickly tired of rule by the generals, was faint in his praise of Allende...
Leaders (as of 5/1) Batting AVG Kennedy, San Francisco .410 Duncan, Cincinnati .408 Santiago, San Diego .397 Sabo, Cincinnati .391 Larkin, Cincinnati .385 Home Runs HR Bonilla, Pittsburgh 7 GDavis, Houston 6 Guerrero, St. Louis 5 Sabo, Cincinnati 5 9 tied with 4 Saves Saves DaSmith, Houston 7 Burke, Montreal 6 Franco, New York 6 McDowell, Philadelphia 6 MiWilliams, Chicago...