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...question that could not be answered fully, even days later. When a prison official read the list of those known to have survived ("Anselmo Duran . . . Albert Garcia . . . Adolfo Lemos"), there were cries of joy from the crowd. But others missed relatives' names and begged him to check again. "Please, mister, can you please tell me if 23355 is O.K.?" asked Lorenzo Chavez, who was reciting the identification number of his brother Gilbert. No answer came back. At week's end anthropologists from the University of New Mexico were sifting through ashes in the burned buildings, looking for teeth...
...embassy was peacefully occupied, and the Indians announced that they would hold a news conference at noon. In another part of the building were Spain's Ambassador Máximo Cajal y López, Guatemala's former Vice President Eduardo Caceres Lehnhoff and onetime Foreign Minister Adolfo Molina Orantes. They immediately ended their meeting to begin negotiations with the intruders. As government security forces drew up in front of the embassy, the Ambassador called for their withdrawal, believing a peaceful settlement was in sight...
Alternating with Carter's planning sessions came a series of actions designed to start mobilizing the nation and its friends in the face of the Soviet threat. Early in the week Carter played host to Spanish Premier Adolfo Suārez at a 90-minute working lunch in the Cabinet Room. The Spanish leader had flown to Washington specifically to demonstrate support of the U.S. during the Iranian and Afghan crises. On Wednesday, Carter huddled for half an hour with Egyptian Vice President Hosni Mubarak and examined the possibilities of regional cooperation to restrain possible Soviet advances in the Middle East...
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...