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...Sandinistas, who take their name from Augusto César Sandino, a guerrilla leader assassinated on orders of Somoza's father in 1934, identify each other by numbers during terrorist operations. The commander is always cero (zero...
...from an accomplice, Michael Townley, 33, an American-born agent of Chile's secret police (DINA), flew home to Santiago from Miami, his mission accomplished. It was to assassinate Orlando Letelier, 42, a self-exiled former Chilean Ambassador and eloquent critic of the military junta headed by General Augusto Pinochet. Letelier was killed in Washington on Sept. 21, 1916, by a remote-controlled bomb planted in his blue Chevelle; killed with him was an American aide, Ronni Moffit...
...area went from forest to zero," laments Brazilian Environmentalist Augusto Ruschi. "There were no gradual, intermediate stages. Within 20 years, the Atlantica forest was turned into pasture lands and coffee plantations, and now the area is marching toward desertification." The process is hastened by decreased rainfall. Even when it does rain the water runs off quickly, because there are no tree roots left to hold it. Nutrients are washed away, and the land can barely support the Pomeranians' cattle and subsistence crops...
...week began with yet another of the terrorists' communiqués, this one demanding the release of 13 leftist prisoners in exchange for Moro. Among those on the list: Red Brigades Chieftain Renato Curcio, 37, now on trial in Turin for armed insurrection, and Mario Rossi and Augusto Viel, two members of a former gang called October XXII who gained notoriety for the killing of a bank guard during a Genoa holdup in 1971. Along with the communiqué came another plaintive, handwritten letter from Moro addressed to Christian Democratic Secretary-General Benigno Zaccagnini. It called the party...
...Letelier. In addition, he and Isabel Letelier published a report last month through the Transnational Institute, an adjunct of IPS, detailing the "relationship between foreign economic assistance, private capital flows and the state of human rights in Chile since September 11, 1973, when the military junta led by General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically-elected government of President Salvador Allende." One of the purposes of the report is to air "the conflicts between the officially stated human rights policy of the U.S. government and the behavior of private U.S.-based corporations and banks." Moffitt and Isabel Letelier assert that without...