Word: javier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...schedule. As boss of the 5,000-man national guard, which is running the country under martial law, he is fully visible. Once again, he has become the target of rival politicians, restive students and even some businessmen who resent his one-man rule. "He has everything now," complains Javier Zavala, editor of a pro-Conservative paper. To a large extent, Somoza's future now depends on how he deals with the problems of reconstructing the city...
Clean People. One prominent Nuevo Laredo citizen, rumored to be altogether too close to the gangs, is Francisco Javier Bernal López, a mustachioed attorney who used to make his living from the quickie-Mexican-divorce trade, which was stopped when the law was changed in 1970. Bernal denies that he is in fact El Padrino (the Godfather); "I don't have a gang," he told TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich last week. "How am I going to order killings? My clients consult, but that is legal." His clients include the Reyes Pruneda family, whose forces are supplemented...
Twelve hours later, after an hour and a half bus ride in the middle of a moonless night to our cane-cutting camp and a little sleep, we sit in the open-ended recreation hall, really just a long thatched roof on stilts, for an orientation rap from Javier, the director of the camp...