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...these snazzy features do have a practical application, however. When Yamaha introduced the DX7 model in 1983, its computer memory was capable of retaining and playing back prerecorded background accompaniment. The keyboardist, supported by a simple drum machine or sequencer, could surround himself with sound. Says Alfredo Flores Jr., former president of the National Association of Music Merchants: "You go into a nightclub now, and you see three guys standing in the band sounding like twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Keys to The Kingdom | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

Shortly before dawn, the rebellion achieved its goal: the ouster of General Alfredo Stroessner, 76. As Stroessner was held unharmed under house arrest at an army residence, his longtime second-in-command and chief of the First Corps, General Andres Rodriguez, made a radio address. "I communicate to you that General Stroessner has surrendered and finds himself in perfect health, deprived of liberty." Rodriguez soon took the oath as provisional President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paraguay The Extinction of a Dinosaur | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

Once unequal partners, then fierce and feuding competitors, the leviathans of the Communist world have finally attained a measure of mutual respect. -- How the U.S. can profit from the new detente. -- In Paraguay, longtime dictator Alfredo Stroessner is toppled. -- Inside the KGB: rare photos of the supersecretive Soviet security agency at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 7 FEBRUARY 13, 1989 | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

ASUNCION, Paraguay--Former Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner yesterday boarded a jetliner at the airport that bears his name and flew to exile in Brazil, his 34-year-old grip on this nation ended by a military coup that left hundreds dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Paraguayan Dictator Flees Country | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Radio stations in the capital reported Stroessner was accompanied by his two sons--Gustavo, an air force lieutenant colonel who was considered Stroessner's heir apparent, and Alfredo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Paraguayan Dictator Flees Country | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

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