Word: parra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...market's spasms the day after their remarks, OPEC delegates proceeded carefully. Instead of deciding to switch to free-for-all prices, the ministers appointed a committee to consider strategies. When the market continued to plummet, the ministers finally restored order by making soothing remarks. Said Alirio Parra, the chief adviser to Venezuela's oil minister: "We are astounded by the way the market has reacted." While individual members will no doubt continue to make under-the-table discounts, as they have for several years, no official price cuts are likely to come until the group meets again in February...
...cleared by eight bodyguards, Salvadoran Constitutional Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson struck an aggressive pose last week as he approached a specially erected platform in the remote Salvadoran farming cooperative of Parra Lempa. D'Aubuisson wore white and a .38-cal. revolver, an emblem by which he is familiarly known. "Some people write that we are barbarians and bloody," he shouted to an audience of some 400 campesinos. "But today, you have seen that we stand for land reform. In return for your vote, we Nationalist Republicans promise to work for the people." The crowd cheered...
...Aubuisson has played skillfully on both sides of the land-reform issue. Despite his grandstanding act of handing over land titles at Parra Lempa, D'Aubuisson and ARENA fought hard to limit the size of Salvadoran holdings that could be expropriated under the agrarian reform for peasant...