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...Alan Garcia Perez, 35, presidential candidate of the Popular American Revolutionary Alliance, victory seemed just out of reach. The youthful, center-left candidate gained an unofficial 48% of the votes cast in Peru's April 14 election, a better than 2-to-1 lead over Lima's Marxist mayor, Alfonso Barrantes Lingan. But Garcia needed an outright majority to win, and the two rivals faced the prospect of a runoff election...
...other side of the issue, the pro-contra groups have been stepping up their efforts to seize some of the spotlight from their left-wing rivals. At a press conference in New York City last week, Arturo Cruz, Adolfo Calero and Alfonso Robelo, leading members of the opposition to the Sandinistas, made a plea for renewed U.S. support for their movement. Nicaragua has become "a sanctuary for terrorism, a center for subversion," Robelo said. He warned of an ominous domino chain of Communist expansion: "When Mexico finally explodes, it's going to affect California, Texas and beyond...
Although Betancur's assault caused the drug kings to lie low for a while, they were by no means cowed. Within a month of the Lara murder, Entrepreneur Escobar and a few colleagues, claiming to represent a group of coqueros controlling 80% of the drug market, met first with Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, a former Colombian President, and then with Attorney General Carlos Jimenez Gomez in Panama City to offer the Colombian government a deal: in exchange for total amnesty, they said, they would dismantle their illicit empires and repatriate $5 billion into Colombia's troubled economy. The government replied ; that...
...that Pastora commands. Especially curious is the timing of the explosion. Since last year, the CIA has been pressuring ARDE and its 4,000 guerrillas to join forces with the Nicaraguan Democratic Front (F.D.N.), the 8,000-strong contra group based in Honduras. ARDE's political leaders, notably Alfonso Robelo Callejas, favored the alliance, but Pastora adamantly rejected it unless the F.D.N. got rid of several commanders who were members of Nicaragua's hated National Guard under former Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Early last month, the CIA threatened to cut ARDE'S funds...
...home address of Spain's 17th reigning sovereign is no small matter. By avoiding the castle last occupied by his grandfather Alfonxo XIII in 1931, Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor Maria de Borbon y Borbon is sending a signal of solidarity with his countrymen's longing for self rule...