Word: alejandro
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Gray cultivates his connections by hiring people on the basis of whom they know. "I only want the stars," he says. It is a policy that gets him publicity, not always welcome. Four months ago, Gray hired Alejandro Orfila, the Secretary-General of the Organization of American States and former Argentine Ambassador to the U.S., at $25,000 a month. At the time Orfila, who is an accomplished Washington socializer, was still working for the O.A.S. and collecting his $88,000-a-year salary. He continued working as both a diplomat and a member of Gray & Co. until his resignation...
...should the U.S. continue aid to the contra guerrillas who are waging war against the Sandinistas? Ten of the commissioners indicated that aid to the contras was a useful instrument of pressure against Nicaragua. Henry Cisneros, Democratic mayor of San Antonio, and Carlos Diaz-Alejandro, a Cuban-born Yale economics professor, objected. Diaz-Alejandro viewed aid to the contras as "likely to strengthen the most extremist sectors of the Sandinista leadership" against what would be perceived as an outside threat to Nicaragua. Cisneros urged that aid to rebels be suspended through 1985 to give the U.S. a chance to test...
...Chairman Henry Kissinger; former New Jersey Senator Nicholas Brady; Henry Cisneros; former Governor of Texas William Clements; Carlos Diaz-Alejandro; National Federation of Independent Business President Wilson Johnson; Lane Kirkland; Political Analyst Richard Scammon; Boston University President John Silber; retired Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart; Robert Strauss; Project HOPE President William Walsh...
Private First Class Alejandro (Alex) Muñoz was going to be home in New Mexico for Christmas. After the Sunday bomb attack, his parents and eight siblings despaired of ever seeing him again. But then, unlike most of the families of troops who had been billeted at the destroyed building, Jesus and Manuela Muñoz got good news from the Government. On Monday, an aide in the Capitol Hill office of one of New Mexico's Senators phoned and said that Alex was alive. "We jumped up and down hugging each other," says his father, a machine...
...mayor of San Antonio and one of two Hispanic commission members, publicly criticized the Administration's Central American policy as "wrong and potentially dangerous." Meanwhile, conservative groups and some Cuban exiles pressured the White House to oust Reagan's other Hispanic appointee, Cuban-born Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro, a Yale University economics professor, because of his alleged sympathies with Cuban Leader Fidel Castro. But Reagan insisted at a press conference that he hoped the entire commission, some members of which have not yet cleared routine security checks, would be passed "intact...