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Coming only weeks after President Reynaldo Bignone promised to hold general elections next October, the strike threw the beleaguered country into an economic stall it could ill afford. Seven years after the military overthrew the regime of Isabel Martinez de Perdón, the call for elections to form a civilian government was effectively an admission that the generals have failed to bring order to the nation's chaotic political life. Their repressive rule has left Argentina with economic disaster, international notoriety for the scale of its human rights violations and national disgrace in the aftermath of last year...
...nettlesome issue of Nicaraguan priests who hold government posts in defiance of his wishes. Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, a Maryknoll priest, was conveniently out of the country, attending a meeting of the nonaligned nations in New Delhi, when the Pope arrived. But Minister of Culture Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, a priest, was in the official receiving line along with other government ministers. He was wearing his typical rustic white cotton shirt, baggy blue work pants and a black beret. As the Pontiff approached, Cardenal whipped off his beret and dropped to his knees to kiss the papal ring...
...Duran Martinez...
...April of 1980, after Baltimore Oriole pitcher Dennis Martinez was beaned by a fan-propelled beer bottle at Chicago's Comiskey Park Red Smith wrote in The New York Times. There must be hoodlums who attend the theater or opera or ballet as well as baseball, football and hockey games, but they never throw things at the actors, and only certifiable crackpots try to slash the Mona Lisa or take a hammer to Michelangelo's Pieta Generally speaking, it is only at sports events that violence is done Customers who wouldn't dream of jeering at Barbra Streisand or Luciano...
...Manuel Martinez, 40, and his nephew. Domingo Morales Jr., 25, were shot point-blank by Officer Kevin Durkin. The policeman was off-duty in a bar across the street from his Bronx police precinct. Morales and Martinez were about to leave when Durkin suddenly fired five shots from within two feet of the men; Morales was hit once in the face and Martinez twice in the back. As Durkin's fellow officers removed the gun from his hand, he stood over the bodies, muttering. "I'm on the job. I got them. They're coming...