Word: gabriel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WARNING: The Reagan Administration has determined that interacting with leftists could be dangerous to the American public's health." The preceding sentence seems to have been indelibly stamped on the orders of those who issue visas to enter the United States. Last year, for example, Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the widow of Salvador Allende--both prominent left-wing activists--were denied permits to enter this country. Their ideas, Washington feared, might somehow pollute innocent American minds...
...previous Saturday, at Santiago's Circulo Español, the city's largest club, an overflow crowd of 1,500 gathered, ostensibly to honor Christian Democratic Party President Gabriel Valdés. A former Foreign Minister under President Eduardo Frei, Valdés, 63, used the occasion to unveil a new coalition of Chile's five main parties, excluding the Communists. Calling itself the Democratic Alliance, the group demanded that Pinochet give way to a provisional government leading to elections within 18 months...
Still, for the ice cream mainliner, the name of the game this summer is that calorific Italian stuff. One of the biggest gelato wholesalers, Tartufo Italgelateria, Inc., of San Gabriel, Calif., supplies elegant restaurants and hotels nationally; its gelato will make its debut this month in supermarkets in the Southeast. Next week another variety, called Geláre will be test-marketed by Borden, Inc., in Houston, Dallas, Columbus and Pittsburgh, with an eye to eventual distribution throughout its 28-state market. "This is the best-tasting product we have tried," says Robert Kirby, a Borden's group vice...
...addition, the authorities arrested Chile's most distinguished opposition figure, Christian Democratic Party President Gabriel Valdés. He and two other party officials were held for five days of questioning after they had appeared in court to testify on behalf of youths caught with 700,000 leaflets endorsing the protests. The arrest may have been a mistake. A crowd of 500 jammed Santiago's Supreme Court building to hear a lawyer read a statement signed by 1,000 prominent Chileans calling for Valdés' release. Said a Socialist politician: "The dictatorship has unwillingly made...
FICTION: Ancient Evenings, Norman Mailer ¶Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Mdrquez The Feud, Thomas Berger ¶The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco Pilgermann, Russell Hoban ¶Sister Age, M.F.K. Fisher