Word: antonios
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...surroundings in the muddy mountain town of El Zungano, the Jackal's band of former contra guerrillas closed around them in a tight cordon. Training automatic weapons on the hostages, the rightist rebels announced the price for freedom: dismissal of Sandinista army chief Humberto Ortega and top presidential aide Antonio Lacayo, viewed as too easy on the country's ousted Marxist rulers...
...ended a 13-day nightmare for Harvey Weinstein, the trim, elegant and, under normal circumstances, witty 68-year-old chief executive of Lord West ) Formalwear, one of the country's largest tuxedo manufacturers. Charged with his kidnapping were Fermin Rodriguez, 38, a collarmaker at Lord West; his younger brother Antonio, 29; and Fermin's girlfriend Aurelina Leonor, 44. The Rodriguez brothers didn't seem to have a personal grudge against Weinstein; Fermin reportedly told police his boss was a "nice guy." All they wanted was $3 million...
...fester. Standard antibiotic pills, which some specialists have relied on, needlessly expose the entire body to a powerful drug and have not always proved effective. Gum disease "behaves like a chronic type of inflammatory disease," explains Kenneth Kornman, a professor of periodontics at the University of Texas in San Antonio. "We have a hard time eliminating those bacteria." For that reason, dental researchers decided to concentrate the antibiotics' killing power by applying medication directly into infected areas...
...could not love Free Willy, aside from a grouchy movie critic? Perhaps the people at Sea World, the chain of popular marine parks in San Diego; Orlando, Florida; San Antonio, Texas; and Aurora, Ohio. Its curators are steamed at the film's depiction of an animal theme park as an inhumane cesspool. "The movie is not a fair portrayal of whales in captivity," argues Jim Antrim, general curator at Sea World in San Diego. "The trainer seems to be feeding the animal an inferior type of fish and often walks by the animal in an uninterested manner." Sea World execs...
...privileges of his job by, among other things, using limousines and government flights for personal business. Sessions made himself look all the worse by publicly accusing his deputy, respected career officer Floyd Clarke, of plotting a coup. Sessions' wife Alice joined the fray. Last month she told a San Antonio newspaper that Clarke was among "10 to 12 people who are bent on" driving her husband from...