Word: pacifico
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...whether the Marcoses or their political friends have siphoned U.S. economic or military aid to build private nest eggs. While Solarz has hinted strongly at the possibility, he has failed so far to produce evidence of wrongdoing. "Solarz has devoted 100 hours to the issue," acting Foreign Minister Pacifico Castro said last week in Washington, "and has not found a single iota of evidence that would stand the test of judicial process...
...people. In nearby Ciudad Guzman, 25 people were killed as they worshiped in a church that collapsed on them. Elsewhere, four popular hotels in the hard-hit resort area of Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa, on the Pacific coast, had to be evacuated because of damage: Riviera del Sol, El Presidente, Dorado Pacifico and the Sheraton...
...nurses guilty of three poisoning charges and conspiracy, but acquitted Narciso of the murder count against her. The nurses, who could be sentenced to life imprisonment, listened impassively to the verdict, but later emotionally charged that they were victims of a racially prejudiced jury. From Manila, Dr. Pacifico Marcos, brother of the Philippine President and head of the defense fund drive, expressed shock. Said he: "It's a miscarriage of justice." Still free on $75,000 bond, the nurses will appeal...
...virtue of that allegiance. As Edmund Burke put it, these were ties "which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron." In a moment of difficulty or danger, a man's British citizenship could easily be his most valuable possession. In 1849, when Don Pacifico, a Jewish merchant of Malta, was refused compensation by the Greek government for injuries he had suffered at the hands of some of its citizens, Lord Palmerston, Britain's Prime Minister, sent the British navy to blockade Piraeus. British subjects the world over, Palmerston told the House of Commons...
...issue started to bubble quietly in 1951 when the Communists imported an Italian named Pacifico Montanari to reform the republic's schools. Montanari, 36, is an ardent apostle of Celestin Freinet, a freewheeling French innovator who claims non-Freinet schools teach by the medieval notion of rigid authority, argues for a classless classroom, with the teacher as merely a "master companion" who discusses with the pupils what and how they should study. Montanari installed the Freinet method in all of San Marino's elementary schools except one: Mother Veronica's St. Clare's Convent...