Word: carrasco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between Communists, Socialists and other left-wing parties in Portugal. Luis Galvào Lopes, 39, formerly an Angolan office worker, spoke for many refugees last week when he cursed the former Portuguese high commissioner for Angola, Admiral António Rosa Coutinho, calling him "Red Rosa" and the carrasco (executioner) of the refugees. What about a moderate like Socialist Leader Mário Scares? "The garbage is all the same," he answered...
...were periodically pressed against the library's glass doors. In the event of an attack, they would be directly in the line of fire. Their captors, in fact, were no strangers to killing. They were all serving time for murder or assault to murder. Their leader, Fred Gomez Carrasco, 34, who had been injured in a shootout with police, was a lifer suspected of killing dozens of people in Texas and Mexico. Ignacio Cuevas, 42, was serving a 45-year stretch. Rudolfo Dominguez, 27, had been sentenced to 15 years. Death was very much on their minds-then" hostages...
...three parrs of Nunn-Bush shoes, shirts, ties, cologne and toothbrushes. These were promptly provided. Next, the convicts asked for walkie-talkies and bulletproof helmets. These, too, were delivered. But the helmets were not acceptable. Shouting that he could tell the difference between "a toy" and a genuine helmet, Carrasco fired several shots past Bob Heard, 27, a prison guard who had been designated first of the hostages to die. His voice cracking with emotion, Heard implored over the phone: "Give them whatever they want, and at least we'll know we tried, that we didn...
...around to asking for guns and an armored car to use for their getaway. They offered to release nine of the hostages; they would take three women and the Rev. Joseph O'Brien, the prison chaplain, with them in their escape vehicle, and let them go later. Carrasco said that their intention was to flee to Cuba and take their problem to Fidel. "If Castro decides to shoot me, he'll be doing me a favor," said Carrasco. Dominguez declared that he too was prepared to die. Cuevas, who does not speak English, asked a Spanish-speaking newswoman...
When it was over, Convicts Carrasco and Dominguez lay dead. Father O'Brien, who had voluntarily joined the group, was wounded, but apparently not seriously. The two women, Elizabeth Beseda, 57, a prison school teacher, and Judy Standley, 43, a librarian, were killed. The two women had volunteered to accompany the convicts as hostages in the armored car-a sacrificial offer that had placed them in that fatal inner circle beside the desperate...