Word: embajador
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...chiste. No es secreto que Richardson, de 57 a?os, aspira a la Casa Blanca en el 2008 si es reelegido el pr?ximo a?o como gobernador. Puede que su nombre no sea tan conocido, pero su curr?culo es impresionante: siete per?odos en la C?mara de Representantes, embajador en las Naciones Unidas, secretario de Energ?a durante el gobierno de Bill Clinton y el a?o pasado, el primer hispano a la cabeza de la convenci?n dem?crata. Pero su nombre est? tambi?n ligado a controversias: el mes pasado un juez federal nombr? a Richardson como la probable fuente que di? a la prensa informaci?n...
...eight Americans were greeted at Santo Domingo's Las Americas Airport by a smiling host who guided them effortlessly through customs and on to the posh El Embajador Hotel for cocktails and a sumptuous dinner. Next morning the visitors were shuttled to the country's thriving new tourist attraction: the Palace of Justice. By noontime they were divorced from their spouses back home. The cost: about $500 in legal expenses, plus air fare and the price of an overnight stay...
...told a crowd of 3,000 that he was the victor and saw no reason to compromise. "This grand and noble people have won the battle against the slavery that a band of Communists wanted to impose on them." Chanting "liberty and dignity," the crowd then marched to el Embajador Hotel, headquarters of the foreign press corps. Many of the marchers carried signs identifying them as Imbert supporters from other Dominican cities. Others carried slogans in English...
...Santo Domingo. "This is what we feared most," said one U.S. official, "that the hard-core people would somehow get out of the city." One afternoon, a band of rebels fought a four-hour battle with loyalist troops at the national cemetery. Snipers killed a marine near the Hotel Embajador, on the border of the supposedly safe International Zone; a paratroop lieutenant was killed and seven men were wounded in a vicious north-south crossfire near the supply corridor. The rebels even managed to whomp two mortar rounds smack into the front yard of Marine headquarters...
...were beyond recall. All day Wednesday the fighting intensified; Wessin y Wessin's troops launched assault after assault in an attempt to cross the Duarte Bridge. Each time they were driven back. President Johnson ordered the first 405 marines ashore to protect American lives at Embajador and to guard the U.S. embassy downtown. Helicopters evacuating the remaining Americans and other nationals drew rebel gunfire. Snipers opened up on the Marine company dug in around the embassy; the leathernecks fired back, killing four rebels. The Salvadoran embassy was sacked and burned; shots spattered into the Mexican, Peruvian and Ecuadorian embassies...