Word: lima
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transmitters happen to be on the same frequency as a local TV station. British HQ is aware of this. Messages that could tip off Provo patrols are cut short by clipped instructions "to use other means" of communication. Such lapses as "We don't want another calamity like Lima's [code name for a British patrol] shooting on our own men" or "Can you claim a hit?" are met with the sort of hilarity among Bogsiders that Americans reserve for a good quip on the Dick Cavett Show...
...from 1959 to 1961, he brought the country back from the brink of economic collapse with a hard-nosed policy of "austerity within the framework of a free economy." For the past 22 years, Beltran, now 75, has also used his sober, middle-of-the-road La Prensa in Lima to protest both social injustice from the far right and suppression of freedoms from the left. His targets have included the leftist military regime that came to power in 1968. Though Beltrán's criticism has been relatively mild, the government of President Juan Velasco Alvarado is forcing...
...expected, his appeal of the decision was rejected, though he got some support. The Inter-American Press Association protested and dailies in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and the U.S. joined in with editorial condemnation. Even Lima's independent El Comercio risked the regime's wrath by siding with Beltrán. But the government has obviously been gunning for him; it has already hounded one of his editors into exile and ordered Beltrán's gracious, 300-year-old Lima town house razed in the name of urban renewal...
...years old, and last week in Lima, Peru, a bad bull knocked him down and broke two of his fingers. Why does he do it? Luis Miguel Do-mingum-several times a millionaire and one of the alltime greats of the corrida -quoted his friend Pablo Picasso to explain why he came out of retirement this year. "I asked Picasso what he thought of my wish to go back to the bulls, and he gave me a Spaniard's answer: 'I have been painting most of my life, and I will die painting. You have been fighting bulls...
...even defeat by Joe Frazier has halted Muhammad All's interminable chatter. Upon his arrival in Lima, Peru, on his latest Latin American junket, Ali talked nonstop: "Most whites are bad, but I don't hate them. I just don't want to integrate with them." Was there anything he feared more than Frazier's fists? "I don't fear nothing. Oh no, I fear the tax collector more than anything else in the world." Muhammad, the former heavyweight champion, has good reason. Of the almost $30 million he has earned in the ring...