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...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...
Even the second-half officials--Harvard Coaches Julio Diaz and Steve Bzmowski--couldn't help the hosts, who trailed 34-27 at the half...
...made $8.1 million in the first half of 1984. It now has 24.2 million subscribers, up 60% in a year. A stock offering in August raised nearly $80 million. This month MTV will open a second channel called VH-1 (for Video Hits One), featuring romantic rockers such as Julio Iglesias and James Taylor for graying yuppies...
...distance between the two parties was underlined at the meeting's end as each summed up the discussions. "The road to peace isn't an easy one," said Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes, the government representative (President José Napoleón Duarte did not attend). Then, as the government side sped away, Rubén Zamora, the best-known member of the rebel delegation, climbed the steps to the microphones with three colleagues. Said Facundo Guardado, a senior guerrilla commander: "There is an oligarchical power that shares and applies the policies of the Reagan Administration, a power that...
Broad-shouldered, bushy-eyebrowed Julio María Sanguinetti, 48, bounded to the platform in the cavernous assembly hall of Montevideo's Colorado Party headquarters and gave a cheering crowd of election-night supporters the good news. "The verdict of the polls indicates we are the majority," he said. "We will not be an arrogant majority. We will have republican humility." With that pledge, President-elect Sanguinetti marked Uruguay's return to civilian government after eleven years of military rule...