Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...provisional President, General Policarpo Paz Garcia, has agreed to cede power to a civilian government that will be elected next year. Last April's voting for a Constitutional Assembly gave a majority to the old Liberal Party, which was last in office in 1963, and made its leader, Roberto Suazo Córdova, 53, the front runner in next spring's presidential contest. Meanwhile, the Paz Garcia government, relatively moderate for a military regime, has raised minimum wages and begun to redistribute land in an effort to stave off social unrest...
...leftists rest-of but not Central Costa America Rica." will go to Perhaps so. If it came to that, however, it would be small consolation to admire one shining pearl at the bottom of a sea of anti- American trouble. -Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by Bernard Diederich/Mexico City and Roberto Suro/Washington
Neither can Bjorn Borg, who won Wimbledon yet again against pesky John McEnroe in a splendid display of tennis. Nor can Tommy Hearns, who thumped the imposing welterweight Pipino Cuevas in a recent fisticuff duel that left even the boxing intelligentsia spouting nothing but superlatives. Nor can Roberto Duran, who showed that the impregnable wall of hype built up around welterweight Sugar Ray Leonard could be rammed through in a bare ring. Nor can the Soviet Olympic Committee, which continues to insists that the Olympics were an unmitigated triumph; nor can the U.S. Olympic Committee, which maintains that the Games...
...bureau on the political repercussions of the scandal. In addition, members of the Washington bureau handled various aspects of the story as it developed. White House Correspondent Christopher Ogden reported the Administration's revelations and evasions. Eileen Shields and Richard Hornik interviewed congressional sources about the Senate investigation. Roberto Suro supplied a diplomatic context for the White House decision to use Billy Carter as an intermediary with the Libyans. Justice Department Correspondent Evan Thomas badgered officials there about their investigations of Billy's dealings. Simmons Fentress assessed the moral, legal and political issues involved in the scandal...
...impossible to go on." That is what U.S. Vice Consul Richard Queen said to himself after almost two months as a hostage in Iran. Queen, now recuperating with his family in Maine after his release, spoke about his 250 days in captivity last week with TIME Correspondent Roberto Suro. For all the hardship he endured, he told his story calmly and dispassionately, even recalling a jocular remark a fellow captive once made about his equanimity: "You are a perfect hostage...