Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...receive a look over invitation. This week Mondale is scheduled to talk to New York Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro and Kentucky Governor Martha Layne Collins; they join San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, who favorably impressed Mondale during her session, as women contenders. Also due in North Oaks is San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, the first Hispanic to be considered. Despite the lengthening parade of applicants, at least one experienced pol was convinced that Mondale's vice-presidential field was quickly narrowing. Predicted House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "It's going to be Hart or a woman...
Last week that theory received support in an official document that recommended indictments and revealed the intricacies of Agca's account. The 78-page confidential report, made public by freelance Investigative Reporter Claire Sterling* in the New York Times, was compiled by State Prosecutor Antonio Albano and drawn from some 25,000 pages of material assembled by Investigating Magistrate Ilarío Martella. The report details Agca's longstanding association with the Turkish Mafia and the Gray Wolves, an ultrarightist band of Turkish terrorists. It goes on to discuss his recruitment by the Bulgarian secret service...
...second floor of Pastora's headquarters, the journalists found the guerrilla commander at a narrow table. After some cheerful banter, the questioning began. Suddenly, in the middle of a response, a bomb exploded in a white-hot flash. "It was a human whirlwind," said José Antonio Venegas, a photographer for La Nation, a Costa Rican newspaper. "Blood splashed against the walls, people flew through the windows. Someone screamed, 'Save me, help me, don't leave me here!' All I knew was that hell was there on the edge of the San Juan River...
...Piave's original libretto, but it is Rigoletto nonetheless, and it is the clear hit of the current U.S. tour by the English National Opera. The company, making its American debut, opened in Houston late last month and moved to Austin last week; this week it plays San Antonio before rounding out the month with stints in New Orleans and New York City. Director Jonathan Miller's startling reinterpretation of Verdi's first masterpiece was the talk of London at its premiere in 1982, but it aroused the ire of some Italian Americans after the tour...
...causes of these mistakes and double takes are not people but the uncannily realistic bronze figures of Sculptor J. Seward Johnson Jr. In parks and plazas from San Antonio to Seattle, some 120 of Johnson's life-size sculptures, many sporting colored clothing, capture the everyday details of ordinary citizens down to their crumpled brown bags and untied shoelaces. They portray carpenters, businesswomen, students, engaged in such activities as talking on a park bench, leaving a tennis court or simply scratching their backs. "We are surrounded by monolithic towers and cold glass in our cities," says Johnson. "My work...