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CAUSA's other new officers are: Cesar R. Conde'95, president; Natan J. Leyva '95, vicePresident; Margaret Isa '96, secretary; AlexanderP. Cano '95, treasurer; Rodolfo J. Fernandez '95,inter-campus liaison; Manuel F. Cachan '96,intra-campus liaison; and Elana M. Oberstein '97,first-year representative
...Arango began the country's third attempt at peace in 17 years. But the fiesta of tropical bands, stuffed pig and beer, attended by luminaries like Colombia's Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, couldn't rise above the jolting absence of the FARC's mysterious 68-year-old chief, Manuel ("Sureshot") Marulanda. He had been expected to attend but instead left Pastrana forlorn at the head of the table and the peace talks in doubt. Marulanda privately told government officials he still supports the process but warned, "We will remain in a fighting stance...
...however, has a strange record in this area. In December 1989 Bush sent troops to Panama, grabbed General Manuel Noriega and hauled him to Florida for trial to face charges of narcotics trafficking. The indictment of Noriega was unprecedented because he was a sitting foreign leader, but prosecutors said they couldn't ignore his flagrant crimes. Noriega protested that the U.S. had no jurisdiction over him since his "arrest"--the Panama invasion--violated international law. But U.S. courts said the method of his arrest was irrelevant. Noriega was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in jail...
...make moral sense of how America treats its local dictators? We ease "Baby Doc" Duvalier out of power in Haiti and into a chateau in southern France, and we send the Haitian generals to a comfortable retirement in Panama. Manuel Noriega, Panama's onetime strongman, languishes in a Florida prison. The other thugs remain free. Why does Noriega rot while the others bask...
...legitimate and reasonable proposal." In a pastoral letter last Aug. 23, Ricard Maria Cardinal Carles declared his intent to begin the long and labyrinthine process toward beatifying "the universal Catalan architect." There is even an Association for the Beatification of Antoni Gaudi, headed by an architect named Jose Manuel Almuzara...