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...show up early. you'll meet President Bok who likes to take his breakfasts at this friendly Square institution reportedly he is still open to advice on South Africa investments Chi Chi's Mass Ave ) and Paco's Laco's JFK St.)will tickle your hot spot but Casa Mexico's a few doors up from hot spot Paco's offers the best burritos and enchiladas albeit at higher prices. The Iruna on JFK serves up sangria and other Spanish delicacies while sushi mongers can satisfy their gullets at Roka upstairs from Ta Chien on Eliot...
Clandestine jails are organized by zone, distributed among the different security organizations. In Managua, for example, military counterintelligence has a mechanics shop eight blocks south of the Casa del Obrero, a union headquarters. Behind the store are two cells against a wall. Each cell is less than a meter wide and a meter deep and two meters high. The prisoners inside were always handcuffed, gagged and blindfolded. They were usually put in these cells for softening up, or for depersonalization. Sometimes they were foreign spies: Hondurans, Guatemalans, sometimes intelligence agents from the United States. I recall two U.S. agents...
...south-of-the-border binge has been a bonanza for restaurateurs like Ramon Gallardo, 45, a-Mexican immigrant and ex-dishwasher who opened a St. Louis dining spot called Casa Gallardo just six years ago. The place quickly became so popular that General Mills purchased it in 1979 and immediately began building Casa Gallardo restaurants from Florida to Ohio. The chain (1981 sales: $20.4 million) now has 17 outlets and will soon open seven more. Gallardo, who was promoted from Casa Gallardo president to chairman last June, now drives a silver Mercedes and lives in a posh St. Louis suburb...
...nation nursing the wounds of war, the inauguration of a new President offered no cause for revelry. The brief, dour ceremony only provided a grim reminder of the instability that has long plagued Argentina: in the presidential palace, Casa Rosada, retired Major General Reynaldo Bignone, 54, was sworn in as the seventh President of the military regime that seized power six years...
...uniform in favor of a simple dark suit for his 24-minute televised inaugural address, he left no doubt about his allegiances. Said he: "I live in the bosom of the armed forces, and to them I give my gratitude." Such effusive fealty may have brought him to the Casa Rosada, but the prime test of his presidency will be how to coax his army patrons into accepting free elections...