Word: rogelio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regularly drop dead from the soot-filled sky. Last year the city endured several thermal inversions in which dense, low-lying clouds of smog literally forced residents of the capital to choke on the waste produced by the city's 3 million cars and 100,000 factories. Warns Economist Rogelio Ramirez de la O: "If there is a thermal inversion in which a whole lot of people die, the government will be blamed and there could be a violent response...
...have shown their idealism," Sin told listeners over Radio Veritas. "I would be very happy if you could support them now." The station, owned and operated by the church, broadcast the names of prominent Marcos officials who, emboldened by Ramos and Enrile, announced their resignations. Among them: Postmaster General Rogelio Golez and General Ramon Farolan, the Philippine Customs Commissioner. "I don't think the government can function," said one high-ranking Marcos aide. "It's a very tenuous situation...
...drop in crude has cut $2.5 billion from Mexico's anticipated 1986 earnings, and the country may not be able to stand much more. "Falling oil prices will have an impact on a Mexican budget that is already stretched to the limit," says Economist Rogelio Ramirez de la O. He estimates that a sustained price of $20 per bbl. for oil would cause the Mexican economy, which is still suffering the financial effects of last year's earthquake, to show no growth...
...tarmac. Galman, in turn, was then shot by security officers. Chief Prosecutor Manuel Herrera, who escorted the terrified Quijano into the Sandiganbayan, the court where the trial was in its eleventh week, did not ask her to name the assassin. But Herrera speculated that he could be Metrocom Constable Rogelio Moreno, who walked down the airplane stairway behind Aquino...
...assassination in Nicaragua a week earlier of his No. 2 guerrilla commander, Melida Anaya Montes, better known as Ana Maria. The Nicaraguans announced the arrest of five other Salvadoran guerrillas, all members of Cayetano Carpio's group, in connection with the Anaya Montes murder. Among those detained was Rogelio Bazzaglia, described as Cayetano Carpio's "trusted lieutenant." Few people believed the Nicaraguans were telling the whole story behind the two deaths. Whatever the real explanation, the guerrillas and their Nicaraguan supporters had suffered a severe blow. Unanswered, however, was the question of whether U.S. diplomacy could gain...