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...will miss it very much." With sad resignation, Panama's Marina Mayo, at 35 the youngest envoy and the only female, took a soldierly view. "You have to follow orders," she said. "One is not entitled to personal feelings." Not so the Dominican Republic's José Villanueva, 60, the popular dean of the city's diplomatic corps who has lived in Jerusalem for the past nine years. "The whole thing is comic," he declared, to the delight of many Israelis. "We protest, so we leave. And where to? To Tel Aviv, 45 minutes from here...
...Brinks armored car, and he had $516,305 in a champagne case tucked under his arm. Last week, after eleven months on the lam, Rees, 27, was under the strong arm of the law. FBI agents finally caught up with him in the tiny New Mexico town of Villanueva (pop. 300). His cash supply: just...
...which had been tracking Rees for months, finally found him visiting friends in Villanueva, 45 miles southeast of Santa Fe. When the agents strolled in, Rees was armed with a .22 pistol and a hunting knife, but put up no fight. Indeed, he had an expression of relief on his face. Later Rees told reporters, "I have no regrets, except that I am here. I bought a bar and had a party...
...told them, 'I am a carpenter, not a politician.'" said Dominguez last week after sailing to Florida with 16 others. A second refugee, Day Laborer Gabino Mendiola, 39, confirmed the story: "If you do not join the militia, you cannot get a job." Added Jose Aurelio Lechuga Villanueva, 53, a fisherman for 36 years: "A fisherman cannot live. I used to be able to sell fish freely. Now everything goes to the Agrarian Reform at their price. You have nothing left with which to eat." One haggard mother recently landed at Key West in a small sailboat with...
Last week Monsignor Boza Masvidal, as head of Villanueva University, expelled 17 pro-Castro students for signing a letter claiming that Boza was preparing a plot to close the university, then blame the government. Government agents surrounded Villanueva, searched everyone entering or leaving, including the bishop himself. But this time the church showed no signs of yielding...