Word: arnaldo
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...they were attracting recruits faster than the CIA could arm and train them. An apparently worried Nicaraguan government had responded by calling in more outside help. According to the Defense Intelligence Agency, some 1,200 Cuban military advisers had been spotted in Nicaragua following a visit by General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, once the head of the Cuban force in Angola. Also, in the first six months of 1983, Nicaragua had received eleven shiploads of arms from Soviet bloc countries, just three fewer than came in during all of last year...
...danger of war between Nicaragua and Honduras. "If you had 15,000 to 20,000 Cuban troops in Nicaragua, you might do something bold." That unsettling possibility certainly seemed remote enough, but late last week TIME learned of the recent arrival in Managua of Cuba's General Arnaldo Ochoa, Castro's leading specialist in expeditionary forces. "This," says an Administration aide, "is ominous. It worries the hell...
...included powerful Italian politicians, military men and police. The fact that Gelli was apparently using the lodge to achieve political power in Italy unleashed such a furor that high military and security officials whose names were found on the rolls were forced to resign; so was Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani, though he was not a P2 member. Gelli's name was also linked to the collapse of Milan's Banco Ambrosiano, whose president, Roberto Calvi, was not only a member of P2, but was believed to be the lodge's paymaser, allegedly funding right-wing Latin leaders...
...secret membership list. P2 was trying to support anti-Communist movements in South America and subvert the Italian state by taking control of its institutions through the lodge's influential membership. The discovery of P2 and its flock of politicians helped to topple the government of Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani...
Politically, Italy is, as ever, teetering on the brink of instability. Spadolini became Prime Minister last summer after Christian Democrat Arnaldo Forlani was forced out by a scandal involving the membership of high government officials in a mysterious Masonic lodge. So far, Spadolini seems to be faring reasonably well In a recent poll, 62% of those interviewed approved of the way he is handling his job, a high figure in a notoriously cynical electorate. But the jovial Prime Minister has a handicap. A member of the small center Republican Party, he is the first non-Christian Democrat to head...