Word: anaya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minutes before 1 p.m. one day last week when the Bolivian Ambassador to France, Joaquim Zenteno Anaya, 55, left his Paris embassy at 12 Avenue du Président Kennedy for lunch. Strolling along the right bank of the Seine toward his blue sedan, he failed to notice two men wearing sunglasses, who picked up stride behind him. Suddenly, one of them, a husky six-footer in a beret, caught up. He pulled out a 7.65-mm. pistol and fired three shots at point-blank range, hitting Zenteno in the head and back. As the killers ran away, the ambassador...
...funeral of another officer, Argentina's army commander, Lieut. General Leandro Anaya, promised to wage battle with the terrorists "until we have achieved the total extermination of the enemies of the fatherland." While threatening to wipe out the guerrillas, Anaya was careful to stress that the army will do so in support of President Isabel Perdón's constitutional government and not by overthrowing...
Five Down. General Anaya's impassioned denunciation was primarily aimed at left-wing subversives. But in fact, most of last week's killings were carried out by a hitherto obscure right-wing group, the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance. The A.A.A. recently surfaced as a major terrorist force. Three weeks ago, a letter was sent to Buenos Aires newspapers containing a list of 17 prominent Argentines. Beside five of the names were tiny crosses; those five had already been executed. The remaining twelve, including former President Héctor Campora, ex-Deputy Leonardo Bettanin and former Education Minister Jorge...
Last week Argentina's present military government struck back, sending out some 100,000 troops to sweep Buenos Aires in a search for guerrillas. Campora's promise to release jailed guerrillas who will work for "national liberation" brought a stinging rebuke from General Elbio Anaya, the Second Army Corps commander whose predecessor was gunned down by guerrillas. The army, said Anaya, will not permit amnesty for "vulgar, unscrupulous assassins" under any circumstances...