Word: alfredo
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...country's justice system remains shaky. The identities of the five jury members were kept secret to safeguard them against possible retribution. And the presiding judge plans to leave the country after the sentencing next month. As for the convicted felons, their time behind bars may be short: President Alfredo Cristiani has not ruled out a possible amnesty...
When Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani addressed the United Nations General Assembly last week, he predicted that 1991 would bring peace to his country. And high time too: a civil war involving the government and leftist guerrillas has left 75,000 dead in the past 12 years. Two days later, after 17 months of U.N.-brokered talks, the government and the rebels signed an agreement setting out a framework for reintegrating the rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front into society and offering assurances for their safety...
Lacayo toils 14 hours a day in an office that would be used by Vice President Virgilio Godoy Reyes if he and Chamorro were on better terms. Until this month, Lacayo's sister Silvia was the country's treasurer, and her husband Alfredo Cesar Aguirre is president of the National Assembly. Lacayo's cousin heads the Central Bank, and all three national newspapers are directed by Chamorros, including the pro-government La Prensa, where Lacayo's wife Cristiana is president. During a two-hour interview, Lacayo bristled at the suggestion that he and his family wield inordinate power...
...cooking-oil companies that benefited from foreign donations of cooking oil last year. The government sold the oil to the firms at below market price; they turned around and sold it to consumers for nearly twice what they had paid. While admitting the companies turned a handsome profit, Alfredo Marin, Gracsa's general manager, maintains, "The government has done nothing, nothing, nothing, for this company...
...that she feels it could upset the vocal balance she has spent a lifetime achieving. Luciano Pavarotti has just won acclaim for his first Otello, and most musical experts think he was right to wait until age 55 to try the heroic role. The list of parts that tenor Alfredo Kraus, 63, will not touch reads almost like a chart of opera's greatest hits, including Cavaradossi in Tosca and Rodolfo in La Boheme. Kraus sticks strictly to lighter parts that do not strain his pure, lyric voice...