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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bolivian team-four marksmen, a fencer and a champion walker named Osvaldo MorejÓn-protested. Asked Victor Hugo Campos, one of the marksmen: "How are we to improve our record if we don't attend any major competitions?" The argument won over Bolivian President Hernán Siles Zuazo. On Friday he told the team it could go to Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: No News Is Bad News | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

...gave up power in 1979. Conservative Businessman Leon Febres Cordero defeated his center-left opponent, Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, by fewer than 100,000 of the 2.9 million ballots cast, but the vote occurred without incident and the armed forces did not intervene. When the result was announced, outgoing President Osvaldo Hurtado Larrea, who had quietly favored Borja, declared, "Democracy is winning ground in Latin America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama: Uneasy Victory | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...pots and pans in a now familiar ritual of protest against the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. When the fighting ceased, 26 civilians, including three children, were dead, more than 100 were wounded by gunfire and an estimated 1,000 were arrested. In the aftermath, Major General Osvaldo Hernandez claimed his troops had been attacked by "subversives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile: One Carrot, Many Sticks | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...DIED. Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, 64, former President of Fidel Castro's Cuba from 1959 to 1976, when Castro took over the job; by his own hand (he shot himself reportedly as a result of depression and a painful back ailment); in Havana. A dignified, rather bourgeois Communist, in contrast to the bearded, fatigue-clad rebel leaders, Dorticós chaired the country's main economic planning body and was the regime's No. 3 man, after the Castros, Fidel and his younger brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 4, 1983 | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

...have been multiplying by the week. Macy's has moved more than 250 bronze leather T shirts at $150 each and has a lengthy waiting list of customers for the next shipment. At Joseph Magnin in Los Angeles, customers snapped up 60 pairs of $57 Martini Osvaldo metallic sandals in a single day. Says Magnin Buyer Laura Rosenthal: "I've never seen anything come close to that record-not even when go-go boots were in." At Saks in Chicago, the gold rush has been similarly frantic. Says General Manager Marvin Cooper: "We haven't pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: All That Glitters Is Sold | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

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