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...giving them a Cardinal, Antoine Pierre Khoraiche, 75, Patriarch of the Maronite Rite. Thailand and the Ivory Coast got their first Cardinals, and Oceania was represented by New Zealand's Thomas Stafford Williams. If the Pope chose a progressive archbishop in Bernardin, he also picked a conservative: Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, 47, of Medellin, Colombia, is president of the bishops' conference in Latin America and an outspoken foe of priests who have become active in leftist politics...
...opted for a middle ground between the bland and the flamboyant. It awarded the 1982 peace prize to two dedicated diplomats who are little known outside their circles of influence but who have campaigned long and hard for nuclear disarmament. The winners were Swedish Sociologist Alva Myrdal, 80, and Alfonso Garcia Robles, 71, a Mexican career diplomat who energetically sponsored the 1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco, which is intended to make Latin America the world's largest nuclear-free inhabited zone. Myrdal belongs to an even more elite circle. She is married to another Nobel Laureate, Gunnar Myrdal...
Alva R. Myrdal, Bok's 80-year-old mother-in-law, shared the award with Mexican Alfonso Garcia Robles for their longtime crusades against nuclear arms...
...alarmed as they were by the new restrictions, many Nicaraguan moderates and some leading businessmen blamed the reaction of their government more on Washington than on the Sandinistas. Citing Washington's recent propaganda attacks and rumors of U.S.-backed "destabilization plans," Alfonso Robelo Callejas, a leading moderate, declared: "The state of emergency is a very logical reaction. The Americans provided a lot of the elements." Others feared that the Sandinistas were exploiting the situation to edge toward greater control. Jaime Chamorro Cardenal, acting editor of the opposition daily La Prensa, called the emergency decree "one more step...
...venting the coup, tacitly encouraged the venture. "Like everyone else, I thought that all or part [of the plot] was known to the King," Milans del Bosch said. According to Tejero, Juan Carlos' wife, Queen Sofia, had told Armada during a skiing vacation in the Pyrenees: "Alfonso, you are the only one who can save...