Word: bravo
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...questionable commitment to ferreting out the truth. Last August the Justice Department concluded a 22-month investigation of the assasination with indictments of four anti-Castro Cubans and the three Chilean agents of the now defunct DINA, Gen. Juan Manuel Contreras Sepulveda, former head of the DINA, Pedro Espinoza Bravo and Armando Fernandez Larios...
...chief assistant, and several relatives of Somoza, including Luis Pallais, publisher of Novedades. Somoza had never bothered to occupy the presidential offices, preferring more secure quarters in his bunker on the grounds of the nearby National Guard training center. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Managua, Miguel Obando y Bravo, and the bishops of León and Granada, who earlier in the month had demanded Somoza's resignation, immediately offered their services as mediators. So did the ambassadors of Costa Rica and Panama. They quickly reported back with the guerrillas' demands: 1) the release of 59 political prisoners; 2) $10 million...
Last week a 22-month Justice Department investigation of the slayings ended when a federal grand jury indicted General Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, a Pinochet crony who headed the Chilean Secret Service, which was abolished a year ago; DINA Operations Director Pedro Espinoza Bravo; DINA Agent Armando Fernández Larios and four Cuban exiles who belong to a fanatically anti-Castro group in the U.S. All seven were charged with murder...
...Bravo Bakke [July 10]! When I fill out my college applications this fall. I firmly resolve not to fill in that absurd and archaic block marked Ethnic Group. Did I miss something in science class or do brains really come in two colors -black and white...
...Office of Management and Budget's associate director Wayne Granquist, bravo for his ideas that would save $125 million a year, the result of "a conversation over a couple of Margaritas ten months ago" [June...