Word: gallos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sister Jeanne Gallo, who visited El Salvador and now publicizes human rights violations in that country is more succinct: "It's their word against ours...
...such people are Reporter-Researchers Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo and John Kohan. This week their cover subject was Poland, where the remarkable spectacle of a Communist government negotiating with its own workers was unfolding...
...Gallo has been World's senior researcher since 1973. She came to the U.S. from Hungary as an eighth-grader in 1957, but she still speaks Hungarian and follows events in Eastern Europe avidly. "Having lived through the Hungarian revolution," she says, "and handled our stories on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, I've naturally been haunted by this situation, its parallels with the past, as well as its differences." For the cover she culled through stacks of files in TIME'S library, helping to round out the story's political and historical background. Kohan normally covers Religion...
...Says Gallo: "Even after all this time, doing news covers still amazes me. So many people pulling together. The adrenaline gets going. You almost don't get tired...
...carnival fighter in Puerto Rico, where he took on all comers for a penny and a bottle of 160-proof rum. When his son was eleven, the father saw that he was something special. In heavily accented English, Ramos Sr. says, "I was as sure my son is El Gallo, a brave fighting cock, as sure as I am that when the priest blesses this house, I'll win at the track the next day." He took Alex to a fight trainer in Manhattan, just before the boy turned twelve...