Word: adolfo
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Contra leader Adolfo Calero is no stranger to the violent violation of free speech. In fact, he stands accused in an assassination attempt on Eden Pastora. On May 30, 1984 a bomb exploded at a public press conference in La Penca, Nicaragua called by dissident contra leader Eden Pastora (a.k.a. Commandante Zero). Eight people were killed including three international journalists. Many other reporters were mutilated...
Surviving ABC cameraman Tony Avirgan together with his wife Martha Honey investigated the bombing to identify the perpetrators. They concluded that Adolfo Calero and the C.I.A. ordered the bombing to assassinate Pastora. For at the press conference, Pastora was about to denounce the F.D.N., Calero's Somocista comrades, and his C.I.A. controllers, and publicly refuse to submit to their unified command...
...School Dean James Vorenberg '49 expressed "regret" over last Friday's disruption of a former contra leader's speech in a statement released yesterday, but said that the address was cancelled in light of the threat posed to Adolfo Calero's safety...
...statement comes in reponse to the events of last Friday when a Tufts senior leapt on stage and tried to attack former contra head Adolfo Calero, who was about to begin his speech at Langdell Hall. Harvard Police dragged Joshua Laub from the scene, and the speech was cancelled...
...SCHOOL Republican Club took extra special care last Friday to secure a forum for contra leader Adolfo Calero. The organization reserved 300 of the 350 available seats for conservative students--the rest going to the press and, oh yes, the public. Just 20 members of La Alianza, the Latin American Law School group, were allowed inside to hold signs in protest...