Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fashion, like jeans," says Juan Carlos, a young Bogotá professional. "At our parties now, everyone just sucks smoke and gets selfabsorbed. The parties are spooky: no laughing, just puffing." Alberto Laverde, 27, is a smooth, smiling Bogotá hustler who dispenses cocaine at the local Wimpy hamburger bar. "Get into it," he encourages in accented English, sniffing up a bit of his pure product. "It's the flow of the apocalypse, man. You're king for a moment or even two. And you can be that again and again." Cocaine, sent off to the States to make money, has acquired American...
...Santamaría International Airport to the delighted shrieks of hundreds of schoolchildren, he knelt to kiss the ground in his now traditional gesture of blessing. Then, almost immediately, he got down to tough business. Instead of offering a perfunctory response to the welcoming address by Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge, the Pontiff used the occasion to set forth the major themes of his pilgrimage...
...crowds were thoroughly pro-Reagan at the next stop, Costa Rica, the most stably democratic and pro-U.S. country in Central America. The left wing charges that Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge, in office just seven months, is Washington's pawn, seduced by U.S. aid ($70 million in 1982). Indeed the money is crucial just now: the country's economy is in a recessionary tail spin...
...killers struck earlier this fall, in an episode that had all the makings of a chase seen out of The Godfather, Friday, September 3rd, 9 p.m.--General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, prefect of Palermo, emerges from his office after another full day of work. Waiting outside, at the usual time, is his wife Emmanuel, seated behind the wheel of their Autobianchi. The couple heads back to home at Villa Paino: several vehicles (police don't know how many) follow close on. At the appointed intersection, automatic weapons spray 40 rounds of ammunition at the car from point blank range...
...Schlesinger may only have run in two marathons before entering the New York City Marathon last weekend, but that didn't keep the first-year Law School student from finishing third, only two minutes and 26 seconds behind winner Alberto Salazar...