Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DIED. Pedro Beltran, 81, former Peruvian Prime Minister and longtime publisher; of a heart attack; in Lima. Son of an aristocratic sugar grower, Beltran was educated at the London School of Economics. In 1934 he bought a dormant Lima newspaper, La Prensa, and despite lengthy absences to serve in government, managed to build it into his nation's most influential paper. A fiscal conservative who staunchly opposed Communism, he was named Finance Minister and Prime Minister by President Manuel Prado in 1959 and during the next two years managed to cut Peru's inflation rate from...
Major Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, invited to speak at Harvard by the Center for European Studies (CES) and also by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been refused permission to leave Portugal by the General Chief of Staff, Pedro Cardosa...
...fair, there are a few good scenes in the movie and even an attempted plot. In fact, there's probably even enough material for a good ten minute short. As the film opens, Pedro (Cheech) rises from his couch as his kids play on him, around him, under him. Staggering into the bathroom, he begins to urinate, and upon closer examination finds that what he thought was the toilet is the clothes hamper. Immediately the tone of the whole movie...
After he goes outside and begins to drive his car, Pedro finds a hitch-hiker on the highway who appears to have large breasts. Alas, it is only a bearded hippie (Chong) who has stuffed two hemispheres under his shirt to get a ride. The conversation goes something like this...
...sometime questionable commitment to ferreting out the truth. Last August the Justice Department concluded a 22-month investigation of the assasination with indictments of four anti-Castro Cubans and the three Chilean agents of the now defunct DINA, Gen. Juan Manuel Contreras Sepulveda, former head of the DINA, Pedro Espinoza Bravo and Armando Fernandez Larios...