Word: cruz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called an emergency meeting in La Paz and ordered a general strike and road blockades in protest. At noon, before that meeting had ended, ambulances arrived at the meeting place and heavily armed paramilitary personnel jumped out, broke in, and arrested everyone present. Several, most notably Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, the Socialist president candidate, were killed on the spot...
...Martin Cruz Smith, author, basking in the success of his new suspense novel, Gorky Park: "I'll tell you what success does for you. Before, I was treated as an idiot. Now I'm treated as an idiot savant...
Park, Martin Cruz Smith...
This is no small achievement for any novel. For what is essentially an espionage tale, it is a signal for rejoicing. In Arkady Renko, the U.S.S.R. finally has an exportable sleuth. In Martin Cruz Smith, 38, the U.S. at last has a domestic Le Carré. -By Stefan Kanfer...
When he was producing stories for men's magazines like Male and Stag, Martin Cruz Smith once watched a colleague waltzing down the hall waving a check for six figures and wearing "a grin that met in the back of his throat." Recalls the author: " 'One day,' I thought, 'I'll be doing the same dance as Mario Puzo...