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Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge Alvarez, 57, was inaugurating a new agricultural reform project last week at the village of Cipreses outside San José. He was in the midst of his speech when the ground began to shake. In a matter of minutes, the earthquake was over and Monge finished his remarks. Afterward, climbing behind the wheel of a white Landcruiser, he smiled and cracked, "I speak and the earth moves, yet my opponents say I lack charisma...
...southern neighbors is not new [June 6]; we have used it before. For the sake of American business interests and the political stability needed to ensure their profits, we have denied support to legitimately elected governments and popular revolutions, causing them to turn elsewhere for help. Then we shake an accusing finger in their faces as we staunchly affirm our resistance to Communist incursions...
According to the two speeches, the major difference between the two movements is their relative familiarity with freedom. Fuentes' tone was one of a people bitterly resentful of rights consistently denied them and ready to battle for them. Walesa wrote of a country just beginning to shake off its feeling of resignation, and just starting to realize the importance of fighting for freedom. He conceded that "the introduction of martial law brutally demonstrated the limits of progress attainable in Poland today...
...same prices for all, the result will be a rate free-for-all that could make certain high-risk groups, like male teen-age drivers, uninsurable. Moreover, they contend that converting to unisex could cost the industry billions in added liabilities and administrative expenses. "The near-term jolt will shake the insurance and pension systems to their foundations," says Daniel McGinn, an official with the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. "And the long-term impact could be disastrous...
More damaging, perhaps, has been sexology's seeming inability to shake its association with what is widely perceived as pornography. Editor Nobile's interview with Zilbergeld in Forum, which is published by Penthouse, appears along with sexual-aid ads and letters from readers describing their steamy sex fantasies. Another article in the issue argues that the relationship between Batman and Robin is probably homosexual. Nobile considers Masters' claim that Forum is an inappropriate place to debate Zilbergeld's charges to be "the last refuge of a scoundrel. Dr. Masters' work has appeared in Forum...