Word: joaqu
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Ironically, the Nicaraguan rebellion erupted into civil war early last year after the assassination of another journalist, Pedro Joaquín Chamarro Cardenal, editor of the opposition newspaper La Prensa. Stewart's death, which has seriously diminished the Somoza government's dwindling international support, may turn out to be equally decisive...
...JOAQUÍN RUIZ GIMÉNEZ, 62, a law professor and a former reformist Minister of Education in the 1950s who now heads the still illegal Christian Democratic Party and, despite his relative conservatism, is respected and trusted by the entire democratic opposition and the Spanish Communist Party (P.C.E...
...brown leather notebook, Che kept track of the conduct and efficiency of his chief lieutenants. At first the notations were sprinkled with encouraging evaluations. "Very good," wrote Che of one of his troop leaders, the former director of the Cuban special warfare center whose code name was Joaquín. But three months later, Che noted that Joaquin was "decaying physically and morally," and with his physician's eye, he diagnosed lymphangitis (inflammation of the lymph vessels). Of Tuma, a Caban who was Guevara's executive officer, Che noted that after six months in Bolivia, he suffered...
...played a leading role. In the three weeks before the balloting, 29 people died and 47 were wounded in political killings, victims of the extreme right and the extreme left. One of the dead: an eight-year-old child, who was killed when guards in a motorcade of President Joaquín Balaguer's Reformista Party fired at rock throwers as it rumbled into a Santo Domingo slum...
...gold-encrusted armed forces officers stood behind him in the National Palace last month, President Joaquín Balaguer thus announced his determination to ignore growing opposition and run for a second four-year term. Part of the President's prophecy has already proved accurate. As a result of Balaguer's stand, conflicts in the troubled country of 4,174,000 are heating to the boil. In response to his decision, an alliance of seven opposition parties last week threatened to boycott the May 16 election if Balaguer did not resign before beginning his campaign. The President refused...