Word: narciso
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that any rebellious action would be "bloody and destabilizing." Early last week he acted again, this time averting an apparent coup attempt by preventing Enrile and rebel officers from bypassing the chain of command. By birth and training, Ramos, 58, is a Manila insider. He is the son of Narciso Ramos, a former Foreign Minister, and a cousin of Marcos. The general's younger sister Leticia Ramos Shahani is a Deputy Foreign Minister. Ramos grew up in the town of Lingayen in the northern Ilocos region. After attending the National University in Manila, he enrolled at the U.S. Military Academy...
Some 160,000 refugees have come to L.A. from El Salvador since 1980, when the crossfire of insurgency and repression escalated. Most are unskilled and terribly poor. In 1981 Narciso Cardoza walked over the Mexican border into Texas, illegally, and then flew to L.A. to join his wife and daughter, now 5, in East L.A. "I thought I would be living with Americans, lots of blonds speaking English and playing baseball," he says of his arrival, "but it looked just like Mexico to me." He is disapproving of his Mexican neighbors who, he says, "sit around all day, swearing...
...Narciso M. Tantingco San Francisco...