Word: directer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even though the election was foreordained and there was no direct popular vote, the new President-elect waged an active ten-month campaign to overcome a serious problem: he was relatively unknown. The son of a general, Figueiredo is a career officer who had been the shadowy director of Brazil's national intelligence service under Geisel. Figueiredo even hired a Sao Paulo advertising agency to improve his image. At their direction, he abandoned his customary tinted glasses for clear lenses, began to kiss babies and beauty queens and even submitted to a kindergarten interview session, during which he told...
...Their co-sovereignty over Andorra dates back to 1278, when their predecessors, the Count de Foix and the Urgel bishop, settled a dispute over who owned the 190 sq. mi. territory by agreeing to rule it in tandem. The Spanish title of co-Prince was handed down in a direct line to the present bishop, while on the French side it passed to the Kings of Navarre, then to Napoleon, and ultimately to Presidents of the French republic. Andorrans annually pay token tribute to their co-Princes. In even-numbered years the bishop gets $12, plus six hams, six chickens...
...different tastes. So he simply gets up there, says what he thinks is funny, and everyone laughs. Well, don't buy it. Allen hates improvisations with a passion. He needs to be in control, and from the beginning of his career has demanded (and won) the right to write, direct, star in, and even handle the promotion for his films. Every seemingly random pause, gesture, intonation in his material is carefully practiced and structured to contribute to the whole; it is the only way the nervous young Allen could overcome his fear of failure. That habit of maintaining total control...
...military mission arrived in 1950 to help administer military aid and advise the National Guard. From 1946 to 1976 the Somozas received more than $29 million in direct aid through Military Assistance Programs, as well as more than $300 million in "economic" aid, much of which has been used to buy military equipment from the U.S. and other countries (particularly Israel in recent years...
...conception, implementation and operations of the Central American Defense Council (CONDECA). CONDECA, formally established in 1964, is a military pact between U.S.-supported right-wing Central American military dictatorships (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua) for the purpose of preventing "communist subversion" in the region. CONDECA has direct links with the CIA, and is regularly advised by the Department of Defense via the U.S. Army Southern Command in Panama...