Word: alberto
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...When Alberto Nunez returned to the remains of his home near the devastated town of Armero last week, he was startled to see smoke curling from the earthen hut of one of his neighbors, Maria Rosa Elvira Echeverry, 66. A closer look revealed a miracle. Twenty-four days after mudslides triggered by the volcanic eruption of Nevado del Ruiz had laid waste to the town and killed 23,000 people, there was Echeverry, safe and relatively sound, in her partially mud-covered house. She had survived on a diet of cracked barley, raw sugar and rice...
...course I did not return," Schmidt snapped. "I didn't want a pardon." What he wanted was a test before the human rights tribunal. He got it after the IAPA persuaded Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge Alvarez to petition the human rights court for a ruling. Schmidt triumphed, thanks in part to a number of amicus briefs filed on behalf of groups that support freedom of the press, including one by noted Washington Lawyer Leonard Marks and another by Floyd Abrams, one of the U.S.'s foremost experts on press freedom. Nonetheless, President Monge has pointed out, "the opinion...
...Alberto Salinas: The Landmark Inn, Faneuil Hall Marketplace, 2:30-5:30pm...
Since December, seven Americans, including the DEA agent, have disappeared. Benjamin and Patricia Mascarenas of Ely, Nev., and Dennis and Rose Carlson, of Redding, Calif., all Jehovah's Witnesses, are believed to have been abducted while distributing evangelical literature. On the night of Jan. 30, John Walker and Alberto Radelat failed to return to Walker's Guadalajara apartment after they went out for a drink...
Populist touches were also added in planning the Monday-afternoon parade. Governors unable to serve as grand marshals were urged to designate "citizen representatives" in their places, and more than a dozen did so. Some of the designees were already celebrities, including Astronaut Sally Ride (California), Marathoner Alberto Salazar (Oregon) and Chef Paul Prudhomme (Louisiana). Others were honored for little-noted achievements, including Arkansas Teacher of the Year Alfreeda Marshall. Altogether, final plans for the parade called for 57 floats, 43 marching bands, 37 equestrian units and one dogsled from Alaska pulled by 21 Huskies...