Word: alarcon
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...heady mood in Brazzaville, the capital of Congo, that Botha broke out the good stuff last week. Botha and his fellow negotiators, who included U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker, Angolan Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Antonio dos Santos Franca and Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada, were celebrating the signing of a historic protocol calling for independence for Namibia and the withdrawal of all Cuban troops from Angola. "A new era has begun," proclaimed Botha, who used the moment to strike a conciliatory note toward South Africa's neighbors. "We want to be accepted...
...Cuban diplomats for guidance. U.S. officials say that at recent Contadora sessions, the Nicaraguans and Cubans have occupied adjoining hotel suites. Last week's Panama City agreement was announced only after the Sandinista Foreign Minister, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, met quietly with Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada. The U.S. maintains its own discreet channels of influence with Contadora through the Administration's special presidential envoy for Central America, Harry Shlaudeman, a veteran Foreign Service officer who was executive director of the Kissinger Commission on Central America...
...with his help would be a puppet of Washington. Thus Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcdn last week sneered that "some U.S. Army memorandum" probably gave Scoon the only authority he had, and added that the next Grenadian government would be "supported by the bayonets of the Yankees." Alarcon also simultaneously portrayed the U.S. as a menacing villain and a bumbling giant. Said he: "Now millions of people who did not believe before that the U.S. Government was capable of doing such things, that it would dare to attack a small country, are convinced that it is possible...
Washington was uncertain how seriously to take a tip from a friendly intelligence service that Cuba had asked South American terrorist groups to attack U.S. targets, presumably citizens and embassies. Nonetheless, the U.S. twice warned Havana that it would hold Cuba responsible for any such attacks. Alarcon said Cuba had asked only for "expressions of solidarity of a political nature...
Spain, like Portugal, has a superlative nationwide network of state-owned inns, called paradores, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. They are mostly in old castles, palaces or monasteries; all have good restaurants serving the specialties of the region and require advance registration. At Alarcon, for example, on the road to Valencia from Madrid, the Parador Marqués de Villena is a 10th century turreted castle, where a lucky visitor may rent a tower bedroom for $22 a night...