Word: mendoza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eisendrath got his story out by combining his newsman's instinct with a piece of luck. While traveling, he had taken the phone number of someone living in Mendoza, Argentina (where at least 60 foreign journalists were waiting at week's end to cross the Andes into Chile). Eisendrath gave the number a try. The phone lines were open−and unlimited. Eight pages of dictation later, the Mendoza contact ran to a local cable office and sent the story to Rauch in Buenos Aires. Rauch forwarded it to New York City, where Associate Editor Spencer Davidson wrote...
...Christians, a rugby team composed of socially prominent college boys from the prosperous Montevideo suburb of Carrasco. Along with 24 friends and relatives, they were making a trip to Chile for a series of matches. Because of bad weather in the mountains, the plane was forced to stop at Mendoza, Argentina. The players used the layover to stock up on chocolate for their Chilean hosts...
...chocolate purchased in Mendoza helped keep the survivors alive for 20 days, but then the modest supply ran out. Their stomachs gnawing, the half-frozen members of the group finally made a dreadful decision. They hacked off sections of the dead bodies, thawed them on the warm metal of the aircraft, sliced them into small pieces with a razor, and ate the pieces raw because there was no fuel for a fire. The choice of cadavers was circumscribed: no relatives, no one with injuries that might have become infected...
According to Farago, Velasco had been tracking Bormann for nine years; he was called to Mendoza, near the Chilean border, by an immigration inspector who became suspicious of a man carrying a passport in the name of Ricardo Bauer. When Velasco confronted the man, he had no doubt that he was Bormann. But while Velasco sought instructions from Buenos Aires, the man slipped away. Why did Velasco, supposedly a supersleuth, not act on his own initiative? Newsmen in Buenos Aires tried to find him to ask him. But Argentine security officials said that he did not exist. (Farago told TIME...
...light of such criticism, Mendoza may have unwittingly helped the papal cause with his abortive assassination attempt. As most such attempts do, it focused both attention and sympathy on the intended victim-in this case a frail, determined man who means somehow to be a leader in an increasingly disjointed world. His exhortations on peace and international generosity seem to have borne little fruit, and he apparently hopes that his own concerned presence may somehow make his message mean more...