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...that year to request Paraguayan passports to enable Michael Townley and Armando Fernandez to travel under cover to the U.S. The men, both Chilean intelligence operatives, were later convicted of carrying out the attack. The man convicted in 1993 of ordering the attack, Pinochet's intelligence chief General Manuel Contreras, has also been shown to have previously been a paid informant...
...leash back on Crowe and wonder, who is this goddess? An accomplished charismatizer from Madrid. She was born there 26 years ago to a mechanic and a hairdresser, and named after a sweet dirge by poet-bard Joan Manuel Serrat ("Penelope, your sad eyes glow at the sound of a distant train"). Comely and outgoing, she studied ballet and acting as a child, was signed by a talent agent at 15 and was soon dancing in a Schweppes orange-soda commercial. At 17 she earned raves as a teen temptress in the loopy sex farce Jamon Jamon. "I cried when...
...sure, Tuesday's demonstrations and the tear gas, water cannon and arrests they occasioned may have provoked nostalgia rather than anxiety in the chairman of the Prague meetings of the IMF and World Bank. Trevor Manuel may be South Africa's internationally respected finance minister, but a little over a decade ago he was still on the wrong end of the tear gas and water cannon as a firebrand anti-apartheid leader. The conference's host, Czech president Vaclav Havel may be feeling a little nostalgic, too - after all, back in '68 he was just another Absurdist playwright trying...
...every day with the reality of a global financial system in which the cards are stacked against them but on which their liquidity depends are fighting a battle within those institutions. "[World Bank president James] Wolfensohn and [current IMF head Horst] Kohler have become extremely important allies for us," Manuel told the New York Times. "Our real problem is the U.S., Britain and France," he said, referring to those countries' reluctance to deliver on promises of debt relief and to share power in the international financial institutions. "The protesters seem not to understand these things...
...didn't get to meet FARC's leader, the canny 72-year-old peasant Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda. While his minions entertain the media, government negotiators, leftist groupies from the U.S. and Europe and such occasional visitors as the president of the New York Stock Exchange, Marulanda prefers to lay low in the jungle, guarded by female guerrillas...