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Hidden beneath the foliage, several hundred guerrillas of the People's Revolutionary Army (E.R.P.), the strongest of five factions that make up the 10,000-member Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, have begun battling government forces for control of the economically vital region. "Cirilo," the western regional commander of the E.R.P., explains, "Our interest is to lead the people toward insurrection. They are already clandestinely organized, and now we are moving to arm them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador Revolt Under the Coconut Palms | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

This was an exaggeration. Though Opus Dei members do not advertise their membership, they may not conceal it, and the new Cabinet contains only one full-fledged member (Commerce Minister Alberto Ul-lastres) and three "cooperators"-Mariano Navarro Rubio (Finance), Cirilo Canovas (Agriculture), and Lieut. General Camilo Alonso Vega (Interior). But this was enough to focus a spotlight on the organization long regarded among suspicious Spanish Jesuits as "the White Masons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Opus Dei | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...from Marx and its support from Peru's impoverished Indian agrarians. When APRA's founder Victor Raul Haya de la Torre sought refuge in the Colombian embassy a year ago last January, he left a triumvirate to direct the party. Last fortnight two of the three, Senator Cirilo Cornejo and Deputy Luis Felipe de las Casas, were condemned to prison terms by a military court. Next night, the third, scrappy, square-faced Luis Negreiros, who had managed to remain at large, was shot to death by police on a Lima street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trial & Execution | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Last year Tenor Beniamino Gigli heard María Helena, invited her to sing Mimi with him at a charity performance in the Teatro Presidente Alvear. There, talentwise Cirilo Grassi Díaz, manager of the Teatro Colón, heard her, offered her a chance at the Colón this season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Triumph at the Colon | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Books. Anyone who reads Spanish should read these outstanding Cuban .books: Novelist Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes; Poet Jose Maria Heredia's Niagara; Scientist Carlos de la Torre's Historia Natural de Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Slow and Easy. . . . | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

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