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Walters presented the same case to the military leaders, stressing that a failure to include moderate elements in the new government could lead to a cutoff of U.S. military aid. Apparently impressed, the generals reportedly put pressure on the politicians to elect Alvaro Alfredo Magaña, 56, a moderate banker with close ties to the army, President of the provisional government that is expected to be named this week...
...Salvador--Military Intervention, Elections or Political Solution?--Alfredo Monge; Arlington St. Church, Boston...
While critics focus on her ERA and abortion votes, O'Connor notes that her legislative achievements ranged from tax relief to flood-control funding to restoring the death penalty. "She worked interminable hours and read everything there was," says Democratic State Senator Alfredo Gutierrez. "It was impossible to win a debate with her. We'd go on the floor with a few facts and let rhetoric do the rest. Not Sandy. She would overwhelm you with her knowledge...
...traitorous" U.S. Still, it was to Miami that his body was flown for burial. It was Miami that had also been his first stop as an exile. But then, fearful that the U.S. might allow his extradition to Nicaragua, he moved on to Paraguay at the invitation of Dictator Alfredo Stroessner. In Asunción, Somoza's flamboyant social life and amorous escapades offended many Paraguayans. His reluctance to invest his hoarded fortune (estimated at $100 million) in the country was also said to have caused resentment. There was no doubt that Somoza had made bitter personal enemies...
...godiam, la tazza e il cantico, as the spirited Alfredo sings in La Traviata. "Oh, rejoice, with wine cup and singing." That's what Cary Grant, Charlton Heston, Angie Dickinson and other members of Hollywood's elite were doing last week at Chasen's restaurant as the stars twinkled out a little starstruck themselves to meet the town's newest celebrity: famed Tenor Luciano Pavarotti, a sometime Alfredo, who is about to take four months out of a schedule almost as fully packed as he is to star in Yes, Giorgio, a comedy about an Italian...