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...rez quits over party sniping...
Cautious, guarded, deliberate - with those sober qualities, Adolfo Suárez became Spain's first democratically elected Prime Minister in two generations...
...aisle, as well as the spectators in the gallery, rose to give Mondale a standing ovation for his finale: "Walter F. Mondale, of the State of Minnesota, has received 49 votes.'' -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett with Reagan and James Willwerth/Juárez...
...rez Esquivel emulated last year's Peace Prize winner, India's Mother Teresa, by declaring that he was accepting only on behalf of "the people of Latin America, particularly the most poor, the most humble, the Indians, peasants and workers." Asked whether his award would affect the way in which his country is ruled, he replied: "I don't know." Others were less pessimistic. "It will restrain those who brutalize, and end indifference," said José Westerkamp, a fellow Argentine civil rights activist. Added Robert Cox, the British-born former editor of the Buenos Aires Herald...
Though Pérez Esquivel is only the second Argentine ever to win the Peace Prize (the first was Foreign Minister Saavedra Lamas in 1936 for having settled the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay), the reaction of the junta was singularly graceless. Claiming that the award had "taken the country by surprise," the military leadership charged that Pérez Esquivel's activities "were effectively used, regardless of his intentions, to make the movement of various terrorist organizations easier...