Word: ramone
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Lopez Portillo's critics to be what the Mexicans call aviadores (flyers), meaning that they are imaginary jobs for which someone is drawing an extra salary. Lopez Portillo himself raised eyebrows by putting his son Jose Ramon Lopez Portillo on the government payroll as a subse-cretary in the Ministry of Programming and Budget and hiring his sister as the country's director-general of radio, television and cinematography...
...fill the strategic gap, the Israelis are building two new airfields, Ovda and Ramon, in the north and south of the Negev. Meantime, Israeli air force officials are looking at ways to keep Etzion operational until the very last minute before the transfer. Said one officer: "Some Americans say privately to us that they can't believe we can give it back." If the Israelis cannot retain the two Sinai bases, they would like the U.S. to have access to them -but that idea is strongly opposed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
...Ramon Latorre, an assistant professor of Physiology who left Chile in 1974, said opponents of Chile's military government would distribute leaflets outside the club...
...cereals are virtually nonexistent; the monthly rice ration is 5 Ibs. per person. Russian shoes cost $90 and polo shirts $40, with such clothing considered luxury items in a society where the average salary is $100 a month."They are taking milk away from seven-year-olds," said Ramon Leiva, 33, a Havana Linotypist. Others spoke of greater surveillance, fewer freedoms and just plain boredom. "The repression has increased," noted Landa. "They ask for your ID card everywhere. They're always watching you. People are afraid to talk. There's no spirit...
...Gulve, a San Diego financial consultant whose clients gave Meltzer $55,000, told TIME that Meltzer did introduce him to two supposed sons of the sheik in Florida. One was called Prince Ali Ben Ramon, a light-skinned man who spoke with an Oxford accent and drove a Rolls-Royce. The other was Mustafa, a much swarthier man who drove a red Mercedes. Gulve also spoke on the phone to someone who identified himself as Sheik Rahman, and found his accent decidedly Eastern. Says Gulve: "I told him that if he was the sheik, he must own all of Brooklyn...