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Word: carloses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Public sympathy was strained even further when Police Union Leader Vincent J. Bruno, related by marriage to New Orleans Mafioso Carlos Marcello, told reporters, "If the talks break down, we'll wreck the city." He later apologized, but not before both local papers had run frontpage editorials denouncing police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Mammon Conquers Bacchus | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

> Exactly one week before Pope John Paul II inaugurated the third Latin American Bishops' Conference (CELAM III), security troops burst into a retreat center in El Salvador, killed Father Octavio Ortiz Luna and four youths, and arrested the rest. The military government of President General Carlos Humberto Romero said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: High Stakes in Latin America | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

"Restrepo" is 22, about average age for that specialist known as a cocaine diver. He is darker skinned than most Colombians and a good swimmer, both characteristics common to people from the Buenaventura coastal area where he was born. His role is to retrieve a 4-lb. waterproof bag of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Colombian Connection | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

The relatively small size of the ETA organization is misleading. It can probably call on no more than 300 men for terrorist activity at any time; another 300 provide intelligence, cover and shelter. But as Carlos Garaicoechea, president of the moderate Basque Nationalist Party says, "You cannot minimize the strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: A Wave of Basque Terror | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Part of ETA'S present strategy of violence may be directed toward the country's March 1 general elections. ETA would like to provoke the largely conservative military leadership into seizing power and cracking down on the Basques, thereby increasing ETA's support in its home provinces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: A Wave of Basque Terror | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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