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...Sandinistas moved against COSEP. After publicly accusing the government of egregious economic mismanagement and "an undeniable Marxist-Leninist line," four leaders of COSEP were summarily arrested and jailed by Sandinista security forces. So were 22 members of the Communist Party for criticizing government economic policy. Said former Junta Member Alfonso Robelo: "The detention is one more example of the climate of horror that my country has begun to experience...
...such theoretical links depend upon transliterations and translations from the tablets themselves, and here the disputes give ample reason for caution. In the hybrid Eblaite language, a single sign can have a dozen meanings. Indeed, Alfonso Archi of the University of Rome, now the Ebla epigrapher, accuses both Pettinato and Dahood of distorting Eblaite religion by mistranslations. Harvard's Frank Cross, an authority on the Old Testament, believes that solid application of the Ebla findings remains a generation or two away. The majority of scholars concur...
...white man's school. Coach Harry Franson remembers twelve years ago, when Memorial was overwhelmingly black. Today Memorial is about 70% Hispanic. A copy of the 1980 yearbook lies open on a table in the art room: Maggie Lopez and Marcos Robles "Best Couple"-and Georgina Araujo and Alfonso Martinez-"Best Hair." One searches in vain for the pair selected "Most Likely to Succeed." There is no such category, only an equivalent called "Standouts...
...basic high-tension, high-adventure mode, not really much different from those pharmacy book-racknumbers with titles like the Tortuga Transfer or Midnight in Morocco. It's the stuff of a million Paramount pictures--drop-points, bills in large denominations, an underworld contact nicknamed El Serpiente, a bartender named Alfonso. The protagonist, Franz Hall, like most heroes of pulp thrillers, has a past to undo. Attracted more by the suicidal romance of risk than by the money he stands to make, he has wandered to Port Tropique in an existential daze, and becomes a go-between for ivory smugglers...
Even more worrisome were the junta's foreign policy moves. In the first official visit by members of the junta to another country, Alfonso Robelo Callejas and Moises Hassan led a delegation of 23 guerrillas to Cuba. Fidel Castro was celebrating the 26th anniversary of his assault on Havana's Moncada barracks. Repaying the Palestine Liberation Organization for the arms and other support it provided during the Sandinistas' "final offensive," the new Nicaraguan government announced that it would seek a "close relationship" with Arab countries...