Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thieves use hammers, wedges or fire to split the irreplaceable sculptures into fragments for easy transport. In March 1971, Archaeologist Ian Graham, a research fellow in Middle American archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum, entered La Naya, a Mayan site in Guatemala; looters opened fire, killing his guide Pedro Sierra. In Costa Rica, says Dr. Dwight Heath of Brown University, who spent a Fulbright year there in 1968-69, "One percent of the labor force was involved in illicit traffic in antiquities-which means there are more bootleggers in that little country than there are professional archaeologists...
...carnival time last week. Masked dancers cavorted through the streets, children dressed up in demons' costumes and whole plazas were carpeted with confetti. In the midst of this celebration, a stocky, thick-necked German named Klaus Altmann sat glumly in a cell of the high-walled San Pedro jail. Newly arrested after nearly 30 years as a fugitive, he confronts the prospect of a French murder trial...
...they did-tutoring in Harlem, working in the U.N., in drug clinics, in mental health, with the aged. Last week the 125 seminarians were called together and told that their noble experiment had come to an end. On orders from the Jesuit Superior General in Rome, the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe, Woodstock will cease to be a Jesuit school of theology...
Though his statesmanlike image was tarnished by the riots, Perón has kept his silence, saying only that "the important thing is to get into power, no matter whether it is with Juan or Pedro [meaning anyone]." But getting Juan, or whomever he names as successor, into power may now be more difficult than ever. Lanusse has refused to change his Aug. 25 residency deadline for presidential candidates. Moreover, a little-noticed clause in the government's declaration-stipulating that a presidential candidate must not have been out of the country for more than 15 days between...
...paid a reported $500,000 ransom for the release of its Argentine manager, Jan Johannes van de Panne, who was kidnaped by some 35 guerrillas as he drove to his plant outside Buenos Aires. Evidently the regime has taken a second look at the advice offered by former President Pedro Aramburu before he was kidnaped and killed by Peronist guerrillas in 1970. On the subject of dealing with terrorists, he wrote: "Human lives are the main thing. If there is a way to save them, it should be done, no matter what the cost...