Word: ernesto
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...Angola's 6 million people (5.4 million blacks, 500,000 whites, 100,000 mestizos). The government's task was to administer the territory and prepare for elections for a constituent assembly in October and independence the following month. But last week, as Portugal's Foreign Minister Ernesto Melo Antunes flew to Luanda to try to sort out the bitter squabble, the prospect for elections seemed remote at best, and there were fears that the factionalism could degenerate into civil...
...troops in the '69 four-day "Soccer War" with neighboring El Salvador, a bloody fracas that claimed more than 2,000 lives and devastated the nation's economy. He returned to power in 1972 by ousting the elderly, constitutionally elected President Ramón Ernesto Cruz...
...Communists, the Popular Democrats and the Socialists each retained two portfolios in the enlarged Cabinet, and the Democratic Movement was given one. But Socialist Leader Mario Scares was replaced as Foreign Minister by Major Ernesto Melo Antunes, who was Scares' chief assistant in negotiating the independence of Portugal's African territories of Mozambique and Angola. Antunes, a Marxist moderate, is not expected to make any significant changes in foreign policy, particularly with regard to Portugal's ties to NATO. Like Communist Secretary-General Alvaro Cunhal, Scares will remain as a minister without portfolio. That is a considerable...
Specifically Stans admitted having failed to report two contributions ($30,000 from Ernesto Lagdameo, former Philippine Ambassador to the U.S., and $39,000 from former Montana Governor Tim Babcock, who has been sentenced to prison for concealing the source of this money; having failed to report the disbursement of $81,000 to Frederick C. LaRue, a Nixon re-election committee aide who had arranged some of the payments to the arrested Watergate burglars; and having accepted two illegal corporate contributions ($40,000 from Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and $30,000 from Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co.). Each violation carries...
...Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla, rector of Simon Bolivar University, has become a vociferous critic of what he terms the petrolear mentality-a kind of psychological rolling in oil. Despite Pérez's reassurances, many small businessmen fear an "inflation of abundance" that has already driven costs up 15%. No American companies have pulled out yet, but since Pérez's intentions toward them are still unclear, they are wary about further investment. Foreign exporters, however, are quite happy at the prospect of a new luxury market-Venezuela has already become one of the world's largest...