Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York 117, San Antonio...
...should the U.S. continue aid to the contra guerrillas who are waging war against the Sandinistas? Ten of the commissioners indicated that aid to the contras was a useful instrument of pressure against Nicaragua. Henry Cisneros, Democratic mayor of San Antonio, and Carlos Diaz-Alejandro, a Cuban-born Yale economics professor, objected. Diaz-Alejandro viewed aid to the contras as "likely to strengthen the most extremist sectors of the Sandinista leadership" against what would be perceived as an outside threat to Nicaragua. Cisneros urged that aid to rebels be suspended through 1985 to give the U.S. a chance to test...
...leadership filed into place on the carved wooden balconies of the venerable city hall. Soaked to the skin, the audience heard Army Chief Raúl Castro declare all of Santiago a "hero of the republic" and bestow upon the city Cuba's highest honor, the Order of Antonio Maceo. Then all eyes shifted to the central balcony, where President Fidel Castro, 56, stood alone, his head bowed. Stepping to the lectern, Castro used words he had first uttered to a frenzied and much larger crowd from the same spot exactly 25 years earlier, announcing the overthrow of Dictator...
...that deal goes through and Murdoch then tries to take over Warner, he might run afoul of any number of federal laws and regulations. One is the Communications Act of 1934, which prohibits foreign ownership of broadcast licenses. Moreover, one of the Chris-Craft stations is in San Antonio, where Murdoch has two newspapers, and the Federal Communications Commission frowns on a company's owning both broadcast and print media in the same locale...
...IDON'T CROSS ANY bridges before I come to them, nor do I burn them." Such was the purposely evasive reply last November by newly elected governor of Kentucky Martha Layne Collins to reporter's questions concerning her Vice Presidential hopes, if any, in '34. In San Antonio this past summer, the National Women's Political Caucus--supposedly bipartisan--received a parade of Democratic Presidential hopefuls, and all of them gave at least vague assurances of a possible woman running mate and similar goodies in return for support against the GOP. Around the same time President Reagan made a completely...