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...where torture has been justified as a way to combat insurgencies. Prisoners in both countries are often deprived of food, subjected to electric shock, or suspended by their arms while handcuffed behind their backs. In Paraguay torture has become an administrative tool to enforce the firm grip of President Alfredo Stroessner, who seized control of the country 30 years ago. Paraguayans who are suspected of belonging to left-wing groups are often held incommunicado in cramped cells without natural light, fresh air, medical attention or much food for days or even weeks...
Like many controversies in the Big Apple, this one quickly involved the ebullient, omniactive Mayor Edward Koch. Alfredo Viazzi, owner of Trattoria da Alfredo, a pocket-size Greenwich Village eating house, squealed to the press that hizzoner was a frequent brown-bagging customer. What is more, Viazzi dared the liquor authority to do something about it. After all, Viazzi said, "nobody is going to arrest the mayor. It's crazy. I've been letting my customers carry in their own wine for 12½ years and keeping everybody happy. Now they find an old dusty law and they...
...leader of the last junta, who has been cited in two cases. One involves the disappearance of two conscripts at the Military Academy at San Martin while he was its director in 1976. The other, in which 1.5 officers have been named besides Bignone, concerns the 1978 disappearance of Alfredo Giorgi, a government technician...
...rise in terror reflects the growing frustrations of the far right, which includes powerful members of El Salvador's wealthy landowning class. They see their influence slipping as the U.S.-backed government of Provisional President Alvaro Alfredo Magana continues to press for land reform and peaceful elections...
...significant because all four are prominent Nicaraguans who had been active in the insurrection against Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, were once colleagues of the Sandinistas and today live in exile. The men are Arturo Cruz, the former junta member and Nicaraguan Ambassador to Washington who quit in November 1981; Alfredo César, who like Cruz was once head of the central bank, and two other former government officials, Leonel Poveda and Angel Navarro. Though they are not affiliated with the anti-Sandinista guerrilla movements and in fact are calling for a "nonviolent" settlement to the fighting, the four have...