Word: os
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actors, the props, even the scenario were familiar. Apparently sniffing out plans for at least the seventh coup since he seized power one year ago, Guatemala's President Efrain Ríos Montt last week declared an official "state of alarm" to muzzle his critics. Under the new orders, privately owned firearms are to be confiscated, political meetings are forbidden and nothing may be published or broadcast that might "disturb the peace of Guatemala." The government also reserved the right to search homes at will and to arrest anyone suspected of Marxist-Leninist activities. For the moment, at least...
...os Montt has survived other challenges to his authority since the March 1982 coup that put him in the presidential palace. Leading the chorus of protest is the powerful Roman Catholic Guatemalan Bishops' Conference, which last month issued a pastoral letter condemning the government's human rights record, including its use of military tribunals that order secret executions of suspected terrorists. "Massacres still continue," the bishops charged. "There are frequently cases of missing people. It is only right to condemn unacceptable abuses of power from some authorities...
...army general, José Echeverría Vielman, bought time on television to appeal to the President to separate the army from all government activities and to call National Assembly elections immediately. Shortly after that, Secretary-General Mario Castejón of the National Renovation Party accused Ríos Montt of using his influence to help his church, the California-based Christian Church of the Word...
...os Montt, who only a few months ago enjoyed support for ending the repressive regime of his predecessor and for quelling guerrillas in the Guatemalan countryside, responded to the latest criticism by forcing Echeverría into retirement and ordering the arrest of Castejón and two other political foes on charges of "injuring the presidency...
Beatles redux? Hardly. Menudo, the objects of all that adolescent yearning, are well-behaved puertorriqueños who sing in their native Spanish and play no instruments. The hundreds of thousands of U.S. fans typically are Hispanic junior high schoolers, like the heartthrobs themselves: five Puerto Rican boys, ages 13 to 15. And menudo, which means "small change" in Spanish, is not really a band or even, to use the '60s phrase, a combo. It is a clever marketing idea: the boys are mere employees of a promoter who replaces each one before he turns 16. "Menudo...