Word: garza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looking forward to having the perspective of other mayors on dealing with issues that affect us all across the country," said Ygnacio Garza, the newly--elected mayor of Brownsville...
Berri had promised that he would try to arrange for reporters to meet with the hostages, and on Thursday he staged the press conference at the airport featuring five of the 40 captive Americans. The five were Allyn Conwell, 39, of Houston, Thomas Cullins, 42, of Burlington, Vt., Vincente Garza, 53, of Laredo, Texas, Peter Hill and Arthur Toga. The political purpose of the event was transparent: Conwell read a statement urging President Reagan not to try to rescue the hostages by military means. He also called for the release of the 776 Shi'ite detainees in Israel "who undoubtedly...
...healthy, we're strong. We've been treated well, and God willing, we'll be home soon." Hill, mentioning his children Nina, Roxanne and Paul, said, "I have every confidence that it will only be a short while before we're back in each other's arms." Garza told his family that he was well and had no special needs. Said Toga: "I miss my wife very much. I want to go home . . . I am healthy, I'm being taken care of, but I want to go home very badly...
...also asked to speak to an official of Amal, the mainstream Shi'ite Muslim political and military force, but Amal leaders refused the request. After announcing their demands, the hijackers released 19 women and children via a yellow escape chute lowered from the forward door. One freed hostage, Irma Garza of Laredo, Texas, said that the terrorists had shot one man in the neck. Passengers were unnerved by the behavior of the hijackers. "They were hysterical, they were screaming," said Patricia Weber of Albuquerque...
...Capitol Hill, many legislators would like to duck the whole problem. Their strategy is to provide what De la Garza calls a "blood transfusion" to farmers in the form of a quick and major expansion of credit guarantees and buy time to figure out what longer-range reforms to make. Congress must write some sort of farm bill by Sept. 30, unless it wants to reinstitute the 1949 law, which provided much higher price supports than anyone would advocate now (all subsequent farm laws, including the one passed in 1981, technically have been amendments to the 1949 act, passed usually...