Word: diaz
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...candidate perceived as least likely to brook internal dissent is Manuel Bartlett Diaz. After successfully coordinating De la Madrid's presidential campaign, he was designated Secretary of the Interior. In that capacity, Bartlett, 51, had responsibility for overseeing the elections in Chihuahua, which many Mexicans believe were fraudulent. The third hopeful, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Minister of Planning and Budget, is credited with great intelligence and thought to be the most likely of the contenders to favor party reform. But Salinas has some deficits. He is young, only 39. And he has a reputation for dishing out criticism...
...from running again, he must announce the P.R.I. candidate sometime this year for the September 1988 presidential election. Open campaigning is frowned upon, but three men are touted as front runners: Energy Minister Alfredo del Mazo Gonzalez, a former governor of the state of Mexico; Interior Minister Manuel Bartlett Diaz; and Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the Minister of Budget and Planning. The P.R.I., traditionally uses lavish patronage and pork-barrel politics to ensure an impressive margin of victory...
...tender reminiscences only implied in the libretto. In Otello, however, flashbacks to the Moor's slave childhood are maudlin, and Zeffirelli's camera, jumping edgily from storm to massed choruses to brawls and bedrooms, tires the mind. As Otello, Tenor Placido Domingo is in robust voice, and Bass Justino Diaz makes a splendidly vile Iago. Yet Zeffirelli's presumption in heavily editing Verdi's taut masterpiece serves neither movie audiences nor opera lovers well, and the patina of homoeroticism that suffuses the film contradicts the heterosexual spirit of both libretto and score. No wonder he cut Desdemona's big number...
...contras are needed to defend the 508-mile border with Nicaragua. Having seen the Sandinistas invade their country in pursuit of contras only last March, some Hondurans believe the guerrillas are not preventing war so much as provoking it. "Of course U.S. economic aid helps us," says Efrain Diaz, head of the opposition Christian Democratic Party, "but Honduras has no independent foreign policy anymore. We have displaced people on our own territory, a permanent conflict with Nicaragua, and we are isolated internationally. I see an escalation of the war, and I do not know where it will stop...
...successes went to Ed Bosco of Ryebrook, N.Y. and Ron Diaz, of Elizabeth, N.J., who placed an egg inside a life-size, headless stuffed dummy dubbed "Buddy Homeslice." YALE UNIVERSITY...