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...million. Students said Lynch was a conversational and funny speaker, admiring his use of personal anecdotes and specific examples to illustrate his points. “I read his book and liked it, and I thought it was a concise and entertaining summary of it,” said Alfredo O. Ramirez ’09. “It was a pleasure to see him and hear his own insights and experience, and to be able to take it away from a text and get his personal touch,” he added...
...been almost a caricature of the right-wing South American military republic. Its infamous 19th-century dictator, General Francisco Solano Lopez had his own mother flogged in public and then made the nation's Roman Catholic bishops declare him a saint; its equally villainous 20th-century tyrant, General Alfredo Stroessner, turned the country into a haven for Nazi war criminals. Ever since, Paraguay has struggled to be seen as something more than a benighted agricultural backwater wedged between Brazil and Argentina...
...knew that this might happen," said Gorka Landaburu, editor of the journal Cambio 16 and himself a victim of a previous ETA bombing. "There had been threats, and ETA often attacks during elections." Indeed, Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba last month raised the country's security alert to its highest level, saying "We believe that ETA is going to try to kill before the elections." This afternoon he told a hastily convened press conference that ETA "will never intimidate Spain's society...
Australia last week sent an extra 200 troops to join its existing contingent of 780 men, who, along with 170 New Zealanders, make up the ISF. The men they are pursuing spent the past two years under the leadership of rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado, who was killed during what the government labeled an assassination attempt on Ramos-Horta. Under Reinado's leadership, the rebels were regularly hunted by the ISF's highly trained special forces but always managed to stay one step ahead of them...
...This government won't fall because of this.' XANANA GUSMAO, Prime Minister of East Timor, about a shoot-out that wounded the country's President, Jos Ramos-Horta, and left rebel leader Alfredo Reinado dead...