Word: rolando
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week the biggest leak of all emerged. The 479-page memorandum of the board's legal staff, on which the final report will be based, was shown to several foreign news organizations, including TIME. The memo's conclusion was devastating: Aquino was not killed by Rolando Galman, the lone hit man whom the military accused of shooting Aquino and who was himself killed just seconds after the opposition leader. Instead, the murderer was one of two unnamed soldiers who escorted Aquino off China Airlines Flight 811 and down a metal stairway to the tarmac at Manila International...
...large part on the startling discrepancies between shards of evidence-mostly photographs, audio recordings and videotapes made on the fateful afternoon-and the well-rehearsed military account, recited by a parade of soldiers both on and off the witness stand. Last November, for example, a military sharpshooter named Rolando De Guzman testified that while sitting with a SWAT team in a parked van on the tarmac, he saw Galman shoot Aquino near by. Instantly, said De Guzman, he pumped seven bullets into the alleged assassin. Then his colleagues began firing too. Tapes, however, revealed that De Guzman's testimony...
...home is that he has created the proper climate for democracy to bloom. "Duarte has picked up a great deal of support in Congress," says Democratic Congressman Dante Fascell of Florida, a frequent critic of U.S. aid to El Salvador. "People are anxious to give him a chance." Says Rolando Monterrosa Gutierrez, head of an export association in San Salvador: "People are optimistic." Duarte seems exhausted and exhilarated by his first months. "This is not a pleasant job," he told TIME, but then he added that it has brought him both "joy and frustration...
...Jose Rolando Otero Sabatier, 66, a former tilemaker who was a popular figure in the Cuban labor movement. Otero was arrested in 1964 while plotting a national uprising under the banner of the Cuban National Liberation Army. He kissed miniature Cuban and American flags on his arrival in Miami and looked a bit bewildered as a throng of 250 people cheered him. Said he: "After 20 years, I didn't recognize some of my family. I was surprised to see the grandchildren are bigger than...
...airport. But if the crowds were waiting for Ver to incriminate himself or his government, they were disappointed. In five hours of questioning before the five-member commission investigating the murder, Ver clung to the official version: that Aquino was gunned down by a lone Communist hitman named Rolando Galman, who was immediately shot dead by security guards...