Word: alvarezes
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...Alvarez claims he saw and asked about a suspicious bulge under Johnson's shirt at his waist. Johnson is supposed to have answered, "That's a gun." According to Harms, "The officer placed his left hand on the gun and with his right hand drew his own revolver." Johnson then "made a sudden move." Alvarez fired his .38 point-blank into Johnson's face. The young man lay in a coma for 24 hours, then died...
...Alvarez, who was a car salesman un til he joined the Miami police in 1981, has prompted many complaints from Miami citizens and five departmental investigations. Cruz, his partner, graduated from the police academy only last month...
...revolution and fled Nicaragua in July 1981. Pastora has since surfaced in Costa Rica, and the CIA would apparently tike to enlist his aid. But Pastora adamantly refuses to sign up. He shuns the F.D.N., which he sees simply as a front for the CIA and the Somocistas. Alvarez Martinez, for his part, wants nothing to do with the onetime Sandinista, whom he considers a Communist...
...operation has already had unfortunate side effects on Honduras' fragile democracy. After years of military rule, the Hondurans elected Roberto Suazo Cordova last January as their first civilian President since 1971. The troubles in neighboring countries have given Chief of the Armed Forces Gustavo Alvarez Martinez an excuse to extend his authority. He has won changes in the constitution that broaden his power, and is using the threat of a Sandinista invasion to bolster his military forces and consolidate his power within the country...
...obvious danger in Honduras' new antiguerrilla campaign is that Suazo Cordova and Alvarez will seek to suppress subversion too zealously while trampling on the citizenry. Some Hondurans are already alarmed at Decree 33, an antiterrorist law that Suazo Córdova has pushed through the National Assembly. A countervailing danger is that antiguerrilla efforts by the 14,000-member Honduran armed forces will prove ineffective, leading to an increase in guerrilla activities within the country. "Honduras is poor," notes one prominent diplomat in Tegucigalpa. "If [its leaders] want to play this game, they'd better be damn sure...