Word: alvear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Howard Simons, curator of the Nieman Foundation, asked Alvear as well as a 1987-88 Nieman Fellow, Rosental Alvis, to help get Gonzalez out of Chile. The three placed calls to the American ambassador to Santiago and the Chilean ambassador to the United States. "The constant calling eventually resulted in the Chilean government letting her go," said Alvear...
Gonzalez arrived only one day late. Said Alvear, who translated Gonzalez's speech from Spanish at the 1988-89 Nieman class' introductory party, "If she had had time to come in the day before, we would have had some time to go over the speech. When she was in the tub at the hotel, she read the speech to me and I took notes...