Word: toruno
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Hard times are forcing some people to turn their back on the American Dream. In El Monte, Calif., Julio Toruno, the son of a Nicaraguan immigrant who prospered in Southern California after World War II, watched the revenues from his print shop nose-dive 20% last year. "I don't have the opportunities my father had," he says. Strapped by high housing costs, steep taxes and a declining income, Toruno and his wife recently bought land in Nicaragua and plan to move there in the spring...
...their pistols into the air and shouting, "Viva la Iglesia Católica! Viva Jesucristo!" In mass ceremonies, the padre married 240 couples within three hours, aided by the government's special dispensation of the $12 license fee. Bathing in rivers, living on tortillas and beans, Father Jorge Toruno visited 17 towns, spoke to 30,000 people and married 1,139 couples, two-thirds of whom had never been to confession or communion. In the capital, Tegucigalpa, the task force of priests distributed communion to 67,000 people and married 1,500 couples...
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