Word: garc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buster Keaton's comic mask was nearly indistinguishable from the one most actors don for tragedy. To have seen a Keaton film is to remember his thin, straight mouth, its corners barely holding their own against gravity. The eyes are equally memorable; Spanish Poet Federico García Lorca described them as "sad infinite eyes, like those of a newborn beast of burden." No matter what madness swirled around them, they remained wells of loneliness in the pale landscape of Keaton's face...
Since 1966 at least 40,000 people have been murdered in clashes between the government and its critics. Since the killing of Manuel Colom Argueta, one of the opposition's most charismatic figures, many democratic opponents of the regime of President Romeo Lucas García have thrown in their lot with Marxist guerrillas...
That empire grew from a modest beginning. When he seized power in 1933, Tacho's father, Anastasio Somoza García, had only a near bankrupt coffee farm to his name. Little by little, he added to his holdings. If he saw a plantation he admired, for example, Somoza García made its owner an offer he dared not refuse, usually about half the property's real value. Often as not, the owner presented the land as a gift. By the time of his assassination in 1956, Somoza García was worth about $150 million...
...substantiated attacks: to find an excuse for robbing the Sandinistas of their victory by sending in the Marines to set up a new pro-American government in which the guerrillas would have little say. That, of course, is how the current Nicaraguan President's father, Anastasio Somoza García, came to power 46 years...
...junta's apparent willingness to support a constitutional government, some of its members harbor lingering reservations. The junta says it seeks a "dialogue" with Roldós, and wants him to "clarify his political philosophy" before he takes office in August. The idea, explains Rear Admiral Victor Hugo Garcés, the Interior Minister, is to help the new President "not to go to any extremes." If the dialogue does not satisfy the generals, Ecuador's return to democracy could prove turbulent...