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That effort seems well worth it to the boat people's artists, who find their new freedom thoroughly rewarding. Guitarist Juan de Dios Jose was denied a musician's license in Cuba because he refused to join the Communist Party. In Hialeah, a suburb of Miami, he plays gigs at local restaurants and is completing training in auto-body repair. "It's like a dream come true, being able to say what I feel," he comments. Says New York-based Novelist Reinaldo Arenas, who drove 26 hours to the festival to avoid any chance of being...
...turn of Beirut's large Shi'ite Muslim community. It launched a poster campaign to honor its spiritual leader, Imam Musa Sadr, who disappeared five years ago during a visit to Libya. On Sunday afternoon, several young men in a predominantly Shi'ite suburb in the south of Beirut were pasting up posters of the Imam when shots were suddenly fired from a passing car, wounding at least one Shi'ite bystander. The Shi'ites maintain that the gunmen were Phalangists who, they say, have lately been venturing into the Shi'ite suburbs with...
...name is Mary. She is 34 years old and lives in a suburb of New York City. With her neatly tailored beige suit, pink designer blouse and necklace of seed pearls, she has the well-scrubbed preppie look of someone who has had a safe, comfortable life. When she begins to speak, the words seem strange, as if they belong to some other person...
...have known that his murder (if such were to be his fate) would galvanize his countrymen. And so it did. Hour after hour, for three long days last week, the mourners, eventually 300,000 in all, filed past his glass-covered coffin at the Aquino family home in a suburb of Manila. What they saw was not pretty. Aquino's body had been embalmed, but the marks of the assassin's bullet were still horribly visible on his face. When the body was moved to a nearby church, where it would lie in state until Saturday, some...
...electronics industry," says Roger Smith, Silicon Valley's president. His bank, with headquarters in a San Jose industrial building, will offer services like equipment financing for new companies. High Tech National Bank will go after the microchip money brought home by electronics entrepreneurs to the Silicon Valley suburb Los Gatos (pop. 28,000). Local residents include Steven Jobs, 28, chairman of Apple Computer, who is worth an estimated $200 million...