Word: humberto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other are the hit teams obedient to the country's ultraconservative elite. Standing helpless in the middle, unable to control either the notoriously brutal 12,000-man security forces or intransigent foes on the left and right, is the civilian-military junta that ousted President Carlos Humberto Romero only last month...
...score of foreign businessmen, extorting at least $40 million in ransoms. The kidnapings sparked a flight of foreign capital that further weakened the tottering economy of one of the hemisphere's more densely populated nations (531 people per sq. mi.). Presiding over the chaos was General Carlos Humberto Romero, 57, an inept military despot who was despised even by his reluctant supporters in the armed forces...
Yellow-cuffed ushers hand out small programs with the words of Boston's archbishop, Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, are blessed indeed to be the first to greet him on the shores of our generous, hospitable and beloved country," Medeiros says...
...eyes look right--the green tail of the Pope's plane comes slowly into view through the mist. It taxis slowly to position but overshoots the steps. The door opens and a stewardess appears. A photographer swears, having wasted two shots on what he thought was the Pope. Humberto Cardinal Medeiros heads up the ramp, the U.S. Chief of Protocol in tow. First Lady Rosalynn Carter is conspicuous in a black skirt-and-jacket-suit with a matching hat that could only be a bowler. The Pope makes his first appearance in the U.S. during his pontiffship and the dignitaries...
...responsible for his care. When he gives the Mass on the common, Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) will take responsibility for him and for any crowd emergencies. St. Elizabeth's Hospital will take care of medical problems of the papal motorcade en route to the home of Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, Jacobs said...