Word: antonios
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...March 2, 1976, five armed men with machine guns kidnapped, interrogated and tortured Jose Antonio Martinez Soler, a Spanish journalist from Madrid and now a Nieman Fellow...
...Reporter-turned-Lawyer Michael R. Levy, 30, Texas Monthly has taken on just about every sacred steer in the Lone Star State: college football, the Miss Texas Pageant, oil barons, the Texas Rangers, Dallas banks. TM's exposure of a backwoods speed trap near San Antonio that collected fines of $168,000 a year led to suits by the county and a nearby town. No Texas legislator on TM's biennial "ten best" list has ever been defeated, while 40% of those listed among the "ten worst" are out of office. Says Levy: "We've managed...
...second o in his surname and, more important, qualifications-liberal or otherwise. A born-again Baptist, Yarbrough attributes his victory to God's will. Says he: "I can't take credit for it. I lay it all before the feet of Jesus Christ." His opponent, San Antonio Civil Appeals Chief Judge Charles Barrow, has a more mundane explanation: "It's just that name. Why, even the wife of one of my county campaign managers voted for him, thinking he was one of the other Yarboroughs...
Even Communist Party Secretary-General Santiago Carrillo called it "a step toward national reconciliation." Social Democratic Leader Antonio Garcia López went further. He described it as "the first dramatic step toward dismantling the dictatorship." Both men were referring to King Juan Carlos' decree granting amnesty to political prisoners in Spain, which was formally promulgated in Madrid last week. Although less sweeping than leftists and moderates had hoped, the decree could affect more than half of the 1,600 Spaniards who have been imprisoned for political crimes or have otherwise been penalized for illegal, quasi-political acts...
...nicknames derive from a physical feature, such as "the Tall One," or "the Mustachioed One." In South America, such aliases as El Aleman (the German), Cara de Culebra (Snake Face) and El Carnicero (the Butcher) are common. One particularly brutal torturer at Chile's Tejas Verdes camp near San Antonio used to tell prisoners his name was Pata en la Raja, meaning Kick...