Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dressed in combat fatigues and a bomber jacket, Cuban-born Pedro Rene Comas- Banos apparently slipped past American Airlines security in Los Angeles International Airport on Memorial Day weekend carrying a starter's pistol, two knives and a pair of scissors. Soon after, he forced a Miami-bound 727 to head for Havana. Pleading that the plane was running out of fuel, the pilot landed in Florida, where, after 90 minutes of negotiation with the FBI, the hijacker surrendered...
Last week Finance Minister Pedro Aspe announced that Mexico had reached a tentative agreement with the International Monetary Fund to borrow $3.6 billion. Mexico plans to use the three-year loan to lower its debt payments by inducing banks to reduce the country's debt or the interest charged. It remains doubtful, however, that the IMF deal, which is part of a new U.S. policy announced last month by Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady and which could reduce Mexico's debt load by as much as 20%, is enough to jump-start the country's stalled economy. And even...
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Strange people and situations pile into a Madrid penthouse until the place looks like the stateroom in A Night at the Opera. Carmen Maura is the put-upon heroine in this glossy farce by Spain's naughty new auteur Pedro Almodovar...
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Strange people and situations pile into a Madrid penthouse until the place looks like the stateroom in A Night at the Opera. Carmen Maura is the put-upon heroine in this glossy farce by Spain's naughty new auteur Pedro Almodovar...
Wallerstein's report has had mixed reviews from other researchers. Many do not believe that enduring damage from divorce is as pervasive as she indicates. Says psychologist Jo Anne Pedro-Carroll of the University of Rochester in New York: "It would be a disservice to families who have adjusted to the changes in their lives to suggest that there will inevitably be long-term trauma for all children." Experts point out that the study involved a small number of families and that there was no group of intact families to provide a statistical comparison. They note also that children tend...