Word: casa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days in prison. Loren, 47, stayed out of the country to evade the jail sentence (she paid the fine), but last week she finally returned to do her time-tempered by a measure of Italian eleganza. Loren was chauffeured by police in a white Alfa Romeo to Casa Circondariale, a pink-walled women's prison near her native Naples. Carrying a bouquet that could have concealed a good-size hacksaw, Sophia was cheered by fellow inmates as she was escorted to a 10-ft.-sq. cell. Skeptics attributed Loren's homecoming to her planned starring role...
...last December. A military man who states his views explicitly with few ifs, ands or buts, Galtieri has been compared to U.S. General George S. Patton and former Argentine President Juan Perón, with whom he shares a fondness for addressing large crowds from the balcony of the Casa Rosada, the presidential palace...
This sentiment is shared by an increasingly large percentage of the American people, who have too recently lived through the agony of adventurous and tragic American foreign policy in Iran. When the Central American Solidarity Association (CASA) called a February 13 emergency demonstration in Boston against increases in military aid over 3000 people responded despite had weather and short notice Similar actions have occurred all over the country. That the Reagan Administration has misjudged the tolerance of the American people for murder and carriage in the name of anti Communism is clear...
...residents are antique-airplane buffs or hobby plane builders. Quite a few also tend to be affiliated with or retired from commercial aviation: some 25 airline pilots live at Cameron and commute-by air, of course-to their jobs at San Francisco International and other area airports. Illinois' Casa de Aero, a 45-home park 38 miles from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, was developed by three airline pilots especially for families like theirs...
From atop the Sombrero observation tower, I put a quarter in the telescope and then realized there was nothing much to see except the lady making change in the Mexico Shop West. (The brim of the sombrero blocked all view of the Mexico Shop East.) In the Coffee Casa, I met a young coal miner on his way south to a Florida vacation. We talk about the coal strike, we talk about EI Salvador, he buys me coffee, I buy him beer, we agree the country would be in better shape were he and I in-charge...