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President Raul Alfonsin had already settled in for a long, lazy Easter weekend when the news reached him in his provincial hometown of Chascomas. About 130 officers and soldiers, led by Army Major Ernesto Barreiro, were holed up in an army barracks near the city of Cordoba, some 400 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. Barreiro had just been cashiered for refusing to obey a civilian court subpoena to answer charges of human-rights atrocities committed in the 1970s during the army's war against alleged leftist subversives. Now, angered by the ongoing human-rights prosecutions, he and his fellow rebels...
Castano's crusade against the rebels began as a white-hot act of revenge: in 1979 a FARC gang kidnapped his father, a dairy farmer in Cordoba province. The members demanded $50,000, and when the Castano family could raise only $20,000, they executed him. "We knew these guerrillas. We'd let them sleep in our house. We sympathized with their social ideals," Castano recalls. Later, his kid sister was killed in a botched kidnapping by the FARC. Eight more of his siblings were later killed, either by drug hit men or rebels, he says...
...Certainly there had to be coaching involved here. This debate, for Gore, was more about not doing certain things than doing anything in particular: for starters, he lost the heavy blush that made him look like the Corinthian leather seat from a 1979 Chrysler Cordoba. But the change also seemed to derive from the act of sitting down, literally getting off your pedestal. And here Gore, not Bush as expected, may have benefited more from the format, which may literally have saved him from himself...
Caliphs in Cairo, Cordoba and Baghdad rend the unity of Islam, but not the prosperity. Gold from Nubia and the Caucasus is mined into dinars, the common currency from Spain to Lahore; and slaves from Asia, Europe and Africa labor in mines, cities, armies and harems from Cadiz to Samarkand. Meanwhile, Europe is still limping out of the Dark Ages...
...confusion, on Wednesday Dateline obtained a fresh interview with Cordoba, in which he suddenly remembered he had talked briefly with Bailey. Then Dateline aired the second half of the first interview, with Cordoba now claiming that he indeed recalled--in a dream--that Fuhrman had called him a nigger. By that time, however, Cordoba's credibility was on a par with that of defense witnesses Rosa Lopez and Mary Anne Gerchas...