Word: alegrett
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...return from a jaunt to Australia, Colino found his eighth-floor office sealed off by armed guards. He was escorted from the building shouting, "I'm taking names! I'm going to kick butts when I get back in power!" But he never did. Within hours, Colino and Jose Alegrett, a Venezuelan and Intelsat's deputy director general, were fired. Alegrett was cited in the case for being involved in some of Colino's dealings, but he has returned to Venezuela and has not been charged with any crime...
...least four of the dead were decidedly not civilians. Brigadier General José Ivan Alegrett, 47, the guard's tough chief of operations, who was openly contemptuous of Somoza for having capitulated to the Sandinistas at the National Palace last month, died when the plane he was piloting crashed near the Costa Rican border. Killed with Alegrett were three of half a dozen foreign mercenaries employed by Somoza to train the guard. One of these was an American known in Managua as Mike the Mercenary. When news of the death of the most hated guard officer spread through Managua...
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