Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Immediately after Reagan arrived, he met for an hour at his hotel with a fellow visitor to Costa Rica, El Salvador's Magana. As interim President, Magafta is the most formidable check on Roberto d'Aubuisson, the provocative right-wing leader of the Nationalist Republican Alliance. The conversation with Magafta concerned human rights and Salvadoran efforts to curb the country's murderous counterrevolutionary squads. Said Reagan after the meeting: "I think that they are trying very hard and making great progress against great odds...
From San Jose, Reagan flew to San Pedro Sula, Honduras. He never left the airport there. He and President Roberto Suazo Cordova spoke together in a conference room, walked to a hangar and read boilerplate speeches. Suazo Cordova, who presides over Central America's poorest country, wants $100 million in U.S. aid to retire 75% of the Honduran budget deficit. Honduras has a strong claim on American largesse: it has lately been a staging area for U.S.-backed anti-Sandinista forces. Reagan met Guatemala's Rios Montt (who had flown to Honduras earlier) for a brief talk. Then...
...Lebanon." In the longer run, it would also weaken the U.S.'s " credibility in this region, and therefore any attempt to neutralize the P.L.O. hard-liners by encouraging negotiations leading to a settlement that moderate Palestinians can accept. -By William E. Smith. Reported by Johanna McGeary/ Washington and Roberto Suro/ Beirut
...operation has already had unfortunate side effects on Honduras' fragile democracy. After years of military rule, the Hondurans elected Roberto Suazo Cordova last January as their first civilian President since 1971. The troubles in neighboring countries have given Chief of the Armed Forces Gustavo Alvarez Martinez an excuse to extend his authority. He has won changes in the constitution that broaden his power, and is using the threat of a Sandinista invasion to bolster his military forces and consolidate his power within the country...
Shortly before Antonov was arrested, Pope John Paul moved to help clear up another Vatican-related mystery. After the death last June of Milan Banker Roberto Calvi, there were revelations about curious connections between Calvi's Banco Ambrosiano and the Istituto per le Opere de Religione (I.O.R.), better known as the Vatican bank. In a papal letter, John Paul last week indicated that the Holy See would be ending its dependence on investment and speculation for its funds and would rely instead on "the spontaneous contributions of the faithful and of other men of good will...