Word: adolfo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Romero's exit, the army named a five-man junta of soldiers and civilians that one liberal academic describes as "100% nationalistic and anti-imperialistic." Its members: Colonel Adolfo Arnoldo Majano, 41, deputy chief of El Salvador's military school; Colonel Jaime Abdul Gutierrez, 43; Roman Mayarga Quiros, 36, an M.I.T.-educated electrical engineer who was formerly rector of the University of Central America; Guillermo Manuel Ungo, 47, a university administrator who ran for Vice President in the 1972 election; and Mario Andino, 43, an electrical engineer known for his progressive political views...
...realize that Begin and Sadat hold the spotlight with their soft-shoe routine, but I would like you to register my vote for the young, attractive and miraculous Premier of Spain-Don Adolfo...
...that very moment, as it happened, Spanish officials were investigating an abortive plot to overthrow the democratic government of Premier Adolfo Suárez and bring back authoritarian rule. The conspiracy, code-named Operation Galaxia after the café in which it was hatched, involved five officers in the paramilitary Civil Guard, the National Police and the army. Although details were sketchy, the plans apparently called for sympathetic members of the police to besiege Moncloa Palace, the seat of government, hold Suárez hostage and install their own people in power. The target date: Nov. 17, the day King...
Businessmen, intellectuals and churchmen are now united in their conviction that the longer the present situation continues, the greater the danger of a coup from either the left or the extreme right. Says Adolfo Calero, a prominent conservative politician: "The conservatives want it known that in Nicaragua there are democratic forces that represent the great majority of the people who have placed themselves in civil opposition to this government." Adds Alfonso Robelo Callejas, a wealthy industrialist: "We feel more than ever the urgency to get rid of Somoza and the government because his presence provokes such [terrorist] actions...
...America, succeeded in wiping out the leftist Tupamaros. The cost was great: the get-tough climate set the stage for the military to seize power and set up a dictatorship. The dilemma of how to cope with terrorism is not lost on any European government these days. Spanish Premier Adolfo Suarez's center-right coalition warned last week that the Moro tragedy was not an isolated phenomenon but indicated "a generalized threat to all democracies and an intent to destabilize on a European scale...