Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mass funeral-which was also the 74th anniversary of the Mexican revolution and therefore had to be commemorated, after a moment of silence, by a marathon and a parade-Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado and several top officials helicoptered into ruined San Juan Ixhuatepec...
...evacuees took shelter in more than 40 temporary rescue centers. President de la Madrid toured one of these and watched swarms of children and their families gulping beans, rice and tortillas. "We are with you," he said. The government's relief effort was fast and effective, particularly for a nation that has been afflicted by recession, budget cutting and widespread corruption. Some 5,000 police and federal troops sealed off San Juan Ixhuatepec to prevent looting (27 looters were arrested). An additional 3,000 health workers, with 450 ambulances, sped the injured to hospitals and clinics. Within two hours...
...cloud appeared the day before the inauguration ceremony. About 1,000 demonstrators chanting "Fraud! Fraud!" staged a late-night protest in Panama City's Cathedral Plaza. The demonstrators were backers of Ardito Barletta's venerable populist rival in last May's presidential election, Arnulfo Arias Madrid, 83. Arias lost the election by a mere 1,713 of the 640,000 votes cast, prompting widespread accusations of fraud. Said Winston Robles, editor of the opposition daily La Prensa: "The main problem for Nicky is one of legitimacy...
...case broke in April, when Spanish authorities, who had been tipped off by the Americans, arrested Alfano, Badalamenti and his son in Madrid. A day later, federal authorities in New York released an indictment charging the three and 28 others with conspiracy to violate drug laws. Within a month, the number under U.S. indictment had grown to 38. According to federal officials, the members of what was quickly dubbed the "pizza connection" had smuggled some 1,650 Ibs. of heroin, with an estimated street value of $1.65 billion, into the U.S during the past five years. The arrests, particularly those...
...just as skillful an actor as Reagan. Gromyko has in the past reminisced about his warm times in the White House with Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull. But just a few months ago he conducted a cold and programmed shouting match with Secretary of State George Shultz in Madrid over the Korean airline incident...