Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program boasts such famous alumni as San Antonio Mayor Henry G. Cisneros, President of Mexico Miguel de la Madrid, and former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Over the years one fourth of the cabinet ministers of Singapore have made the trek to Cambridge, Miller claims...
...last Friday, Manuel Antonio Sanchez Perez was leaving a Madrid bank when three men jumped him. Sanchez, Cuba's deputy planning minister, who had been granted provisional asylum in Spain, fought furiously. "They're going to kill me!" he screamed as his pistolwaving assailants wrestled him into a waiting car driven by a woman accomplice. Some 30 to 50 bystanders quickly surrounded the auto. A cab pulled over and blocked the vehicle's escape while the crowd dragged Sanchez to safety, holding the would-be abductors until police arrived. All turned out to be Cuban embassy personnel, including the vice...
...event suggested that there might be truth to a rumor making the rounds of Madrid's Cuban-exile community that Sanchez was also a spy who may have been ready to spill secrets to the West. After expressing its "repulsion" at the botched kidnaping, the Socialist government of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez expelled the four Cubans. Sanchez, meanwhile, was hustled off to an undisclosed location and placed under armed guard...
Watson plans to use next semester to train with the U.S. National Team--he has been a member since 1981--in Austin, Texas, for February's DDR Championships in East Germany, and for the World Aquatic Championships which will be held in Madrid, Spain...
...Brazil will not pay its foreign debt with recession, not with unemployment, nor with hunger." Peru's President Alan Garcia Perez, whose country owes $14 billion, has threatened to pull out of the IMF unless the agency gives his country more breathing room. Mexico's President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado took a similar, if less militant, stand. Even before the deadly earthquake hit last month, his country was beginning to have difficulty limiting its spending enough to meet IMF guidelines. The disaster caused as much as $4 billion in damage and amplified Mexico's need for more...