Word: anaya
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...court, the army general who launched his country's disastrous 1982 war with Britain over the Falkland Islands was under formal arrest. Galtieri was soon joined by the other members of the military junta who ruled Argentina during those inglorious days: former Navy Commander in Chief Jorge Isaac Anaya and Air Force Commander in Chief Basilio Lami Dozo. The trio of arrests gave a strong signal that Argentina's discredited armed forces were finally about to begin court-martial proceedings against their former superiors in connection with the Falklands debacle, a war that left 1,366 Argentines dead...
...Boosting Anaya...
Governor Toney Anaya of New Mexico [Oct. 31] has been hailed by environmentalists, praised for forming with Chicago's Mayor Harold Washington the nation's first brown-black coalition, and lauded by women for his commitment to equality. Yet all TIME can discover about Anaya is that the young, activist, Hispanic Governor is ambitious...
...homesick New Mexican, I was pleased to read about Governor Anaya, but disappointed that you failed to mention his record on appointing women to Cabinet-level and policymaking positions. Unfortunately, your report reminded me of those published back home. It was another complaint about some uppity Hispanic who doesn't know her/his place...
After he was elected New Mexico's attorney general in 1974, Anaya transformed the office from a sleepy political backwater into one of the most visible and independent positions in the state by crusading against white-collar crime and championing consumer and environmental issues. In 1982 he was elected Governor by a margin of 25,000 votes out of 406,000 cast, considered a landslide in New Mexico. Under state law, however, Anaya cannot succeed himself, a fact that has made him work feverishly to put his populist stamp on state government and consolidate power in the Governor...