Word: robertos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capture is a victory in President Corazon Aquino's drive against the Communist-led guerrillas. Rivera is one of the N.P.A.'s experts in political assassination and a veteran of its 19-year war. In another small success for Aquino, Lieut. Colonel Roberto Navida, 38, surrendered to the government. Navida had helped Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan mount the failed August coup against Aquino and then had gone into hiding with...
...seemed so promising four years ago. The Notre Dame-educated Duarte had just defeated Roberto d'Aubuisson, an ex-army major who was widely linked with death-squad killings. Duarte opened talks with the F.M.L.N., promised to investigate alleged army massacres of civilians and create new jobs. "Imagine," says one of the country's religious educators, "if Abraham Lincoln came back and ran for President of the United States. That's the kind of expectation some people had of Duarte...
Cover: Sculpture by Ajin; photographed by Roberto Brosan...
...lovely incongruity, weight lifters took over the symphony hall, and to a harpist's rendition of The Harmonious Blacksmith, Cuban-born Roberto ("Tony") Urrutia tried his hand as an American. The three-time world champion, who defected seven years ago on the end of a bedsheet in Mexico City, finished third in the middleweight class to two former countrymen. Fidel Castro sent them his congratulations: "You taught an exemplary lesson to the traitor." Urrutia declared he was glad to be free, "like a bird," but the / medal ceremony was bittersweet. "When I hear the national anthem," he said wistfully...
...government also announced that Colonel Roberto Diaz Herrera -- who kicked off the cycle of protest on June 7 when he accused Noriega of corruption, electoral fraud and murder -- had signed two depositions withdrawing his allegations. Diaz has been in jail since a Panamanian army raid on his house on July 27. Speculation was that Diaz signed the documents as the price for exile in Venezuela...