Word: rio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardly a dramatic ending to one of Latin America's most notorious terrorist careers. When Brazilian federal police descended last week on a modest apartment in Rio de Janeiro's fashionable Ipanema district, their quarry no doubt expected the visit: he had returned home the night before to find Brazilian reporters squatting on his doorstep, clamoring for interviews. After the authorities finally arrived, Mário Eduardo Firmenich, leader of the quondam Argentine urban guerrilla organization known as the Montoneros, surrendered without a struggle...
Locked away in downtown Rio's Praça Mauá jail, Firmenich now awaits formal extradition proceedings that would return him to the country where, during the 1970s, his crimes helped to create a decade of bloody turmoil and an eventual military dictatorship...
Back in Washington, Kissinger called the accusation "a lie." Shultz then flew on to Brazil, landing without fanfare in Rio de Janeiro. At week's end, he was enjoying a tropical round of golf with an aide at the lush Gávea Golf Club prior to a scheduled hourlong meeting on Monday in Brasilia with the country's military President, João Baptista Figueiredo. Once again, progress toward full democracy was liable to be discussed: Figueiredo will step down from the country's most important remaining nonelective political office in March 1985, probably in favor...
...proud parent: "I think Duran Duran owes its life to MTV." Duran Duran, in the person of Synthesizer Player Nick Rhodes, agrees: "MTV was instrumental in breaking us in America." Even the record industry could beam in on the phenomenon when it noticed that the Duran Duran album, Rio, was being sold out at half the record stores in Dallas and was gathering dust in the other half. A check of the local television listings showed that parts of the city that were wired for cable and carrying MTV were the very same parts where the album was flourishing...
This junkyard of high-tech effluvia is 7,500 ft. above sea level, occupying three acres of the Pajarito Plateau in northern New Mexico. The Jemez Mountains and the Sangre de Cristo range rise from the Rio Grande Valley, the gray-green slopes splashed with yellowing aspen. The incomparable clouds of the high desert float over the city on the hill. Los Alamos, birthplace of the atomic bomb, is a 40-year-old company town (pop. 17,500). The company is the U.S. Government, and the main business is nuclear weapons. The lab's Bradbury Science Museum...