Word: aranda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When Shirley Aranda, 34, of Phoenix, lost her first child shortly after birth, doctors found she had a congenital uterine problem. In the past, they might have dissuaded her from becoming pregnant again. Instead they performed corrective surgery and encouraged her to try once more. Twice she gave birth-once to a baby weighing only 1 Ib. 13 oz. Both infants survived and are now, at ages 5 and 2½, healthy, normal youngsters...
...dropping in at the lunch counter of Houston's Keystone Drugstore to buy a cup of coffee and a 6-oz. jar of hot "Evangeline peppers" (leaving a $1 tip). He took a stroll downtown in that city, and paused to speak with a traffic policeman, Ignacio Aranda. He chatted with U.S. astronauts and Soviet technicians at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, lauding their courage for never "giving up," not even during dire emergencies in space...
...Aranda, Chalandon's former press attaché, began preparing the latest revelation after Chalandon lost his job last July when Pompidou forced Chaban-Delmas to tender his resignation. Chalandon asked Aranda to go through his correspondence and sort it out. Aranda did, and made photocopies of documents he considered compromising to Gaullist bigwigs...
Curiously, Aranda linked his revelations to the recent sale of French Mirage fighters to Libya. If the Pompidou government did not stop "the delivery of these offensive weapons at once," Aranda threatened to publish many more documents. "No one has the right to sell out the people of Israel," he added. "Shalom!" The speech led many Frenchmen to believe that he was Jewish. As it turned out, Aranda is Catholic, conservative and, to the consternation of the government, a staunch Gaullist. The Mirage statement, he explained grandly, was just "a poetic touch, a flower on the dung heap...
Police were not amused. Justice Minister Rene Pleven instructed the Paris district attorney to arrest Aranda and charge him with "stealing, concealing and revealing." Frontier police and Orly airport officials were also ordered to catch Aranda-though, as the Paris daily Le Monde wryly pointed out, not to question...