Word: edgardo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tebuthiuron can harm useful vegetation if it leaches into groundwater. Ecologists contend that it would be difficult for farmers to grow crops after the coca has been destroyed. They point out that Spike is not meant to be used on the moist, hilly terrain of the eastern Andes. Warns Edgardo Machado, a Peruvian coca researcher: "The rain will drag the herbicide into the soil at lower levels of the valley, where there are farms...
...Radicals tried to downplay the resurgence of the blue collar-based Peronist movement. "We knew it was coming," said Edgardo Catterberg, a party pollster. "There was a national sense of unfulfilled expectations." At issue was the government's handling of the economy. Inflation, which was running in the single digits two years ago, is now nearly 14%. Alfonsin's determination to make regular interest payments on Argentina's $54 billion foreign debt also continues to stir controversy. Addressing a business group late in the week, he cautioned, "We have lost the elections, but the tree has not fallen...
...Cebu, 350 miles southeast of Manila, troops commanded by Brigadier General Edgardo Abenina flew the Philippine flag upside down at their garrisons as a sign of sympathy for the rebels. Civilian authorities were placed under house arrest. But after Ramos relieved Abenina of his command, the brigadier general peacefully submitted...
...military threat posed by 16,000 Communist insurgents and a political system crippled by two decades of corruption. Though Aquino has committed no major blunders, she has yet to answer the questions that will arise once her honeymoon ends. "Her credibility is high in terms of popular support," says Edgardo Angara, president of the University of the Philippines. "What may be a little unsettling to some people is the question of whether that credibility is backed up by the political ability to manage...
...sign decrees accusing the three past military juntas of human rights abuses that led to the deaths of at least 10,000 Argentines. His next step was to try to bring democratic procedures to the omnipotent labor unions that are the Perónists' power base. Explains Edgardo Catterberg, Alfonsín's adviser on public opinion: "If you want to create a democratic society, you have to have democratic unions." The attempt to proceed against the juntas has produced scant results beyond the detention of a few officers, although a newly established military tribunal has until...