Word: aleman
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...official death toll approached 7,000 Tuesday, and with 13,000 people still listed missing, that count is almost certain to rise. And true to Nicaraguan tradition, the natural disaster is impacting on politics. "President Arnoldo Aleman is being criticized for the slow progress in getting aid to stricken villages," says Orlandi. "And the Sandinistas are attacking him for not declaring a national emergency." Aleman may want to pay more attention to history: It was political fallout from the 1972 killer earthquake that helped sweep the Sandinistas to power seven years later...
NICARAGUA Arnoldo Aleman Daniel Ortega (9) 7 years...
...ships annually, representing 14% of all U.S. trade, is proceeding smoothly. More than 90% of the canal's 9,400 employees, including its chief administrator, are Panamanian. To the question of what will happen at noon on Dec. 31, 1999, when the official transfer is made, administrator Alberto Aleman Zubieta says, "Nothing will change except the name on the checks to the personnel...
MANAGUA: With thirty six percent of the vote counted, Conservative Arnoldo Aleman, the former mayor of Managua, is claiming victory in Nicaragua's second consecutive democratic election. Aleman predicted he would win a majority, avoid a runoff and end Sandinista Daniel Ortega's political comeback. Aleman is already making plans to form a national government, formed of all political forces in the country. Ortega is not conceding defeat, while Sandinista campaign chairman Alvaro Fiallos said that it was premature for Aleman to claim victory. The elections themselves were a morass of inefficient bureaucracy, hampered by delays in ballot delivery, tardy...
...true mid-December spirit, Jonathan G. Fisher '93, Reies Montes '93-'94, and Thomas A. Aleman '93-'94 dressed in Santa suits...