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Cabanillas, a key member of Garcia's APRA party and its presidential candidate in 1995, is routinely referred to at the Peruvian Margaret Thatcher for her tough stands. Administration sources say that she was the president's pick to become chief of staff in July, when Garcia starts the fourth year of a five-year term that ends in July 2011. That is now politically untenable. The ministers have claimed so far that they have no intention of stepping down and the administration, while saying it wants dialogue to end the tension, maintains that it will not modify the series...
...concessions in country. Garcia and his Cabinet chief, Jorge del Castillo, hastily called a press conference as soon as the audio was played on a local news show, trying to put distance between themselves and the men on the tape, who are also members of ruling APRA party...
...help. On the tape, one of the voices is identified as Romulo Leon, who, as Garcia's agriculture minister in the 1980s, was accused of taking kickbacks. Nothing ever came of the investigation, but his apparent reappearance in shady dealings dredged up memories that Garcia and APRA believed had been buried. On the tape, Leon, who admits it is his voice but denies wrongdoing, talks about top party leaders, boasting about meetings and inside deals...
...that revolution was ancillary. (So was the Blowup rave-up performed by the Yardbirds, including the young Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck.) Artistically, Antonioni was after bigger game, and bagged it. As critic Adriano Apra says on the Criterion edition of Eclipse: "In film each auteur gives us his distinctive perception of the world. Antonioni goes beyond that. He always invents a world of his own." Apra means that literally, especially regarding the director's first two color features...
...engineer at the Technical University of Berlin. The entire reman industry is too sprawling and amorphous to be accurately tracked - it includes products as diverse as copiers, medical equipment, compressors, single - use cameras and mobile phones. But, according to the Cologne office of the Automotive Parts Remanufacturers Association (APRA), the European remanufactured auto-parts sector alone is expected to grow from $5.2 billion in 2005 to $9.7 billion...