Word: julio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Berlin, is the contrast so stark. On one side of the blurry line stands an economic superpower, on the other a nation burdened with widespread poverty. "This is the only place I know where you can jump from the First World to the Third World in five minutes," says Julio Chiu, a bank executive in El Paso who grew up in Juarez...
...made the news service part of the Voice of America, Radio Marti must comply with that agency's mandate to broadcast "accurate, objective and comprehensive" news. The first day's 14 1/2- hour broadcast, which Cuba tried unsuccessfully to jam, included a melodramatic soap opera, tunes from Pop Singer Julio Iglesias and an interview in Spanish with Los Angeles Dodgers Manager Tommy Lasorda, who claimed that the island would have had a major league baseball team by now if it were not a Communist country. Most observers agreed that Radio Marti's material was mild compared with programs beamed...
...that ruled during the dirty war would be charged with murder, kidnaping and torture. After nine months of deliberation, however, the Supreme Military Council announced that it found nothing "objectionable" in the juntas' directives. As a result, the cases were moved to the civilian federal appeals court, where Prosecutor Julio Cesar Strassera is detailing 709 representative incidents of transgressions by security forces. Some time before midterm congressional elections in November, the judiciary is expected to hand down stiff sentences against the generals who issued the orders and some of their subordinates, who went beyond the call of duty in following...
...chime in. In New York City, radio station WYNY-FM invited citizens to join a chorus on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral; hundreds showed up and let loose. In Indianapolis, three clubs donated their facilities and three local bands their talents. Latin artists, featuring Jose Feliciano and Julio Iglesias, have already made their own recorded contribution, Cantare Cantaras, which is projected to pull in $15 million for hunger relief; gospelers have cut Do Something Now; and an array of heavy- metal performers, from Judas Priest to Quiet Riot, have formed an outfit called Hear 'n Aid to record...
...citizens of Uruguay, the occasion was a civic triumph: the inauguration of Julio Maria Sanguinetti, 49, as the tiny South American country's first democratically elected President in 13 years. But for much of the hemisphere, the spotlight in the capital of Montevideo was focused last week on two of the official guests at the ceremonies, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra and U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz. The question: After days of high-profile posturing by their respective governments, would the two men agree to talk over their differences...