Word: santiagos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief of staff in 1967 and did so well that his boss appointed him to the California Supreme Court. Now Reagan has named William P. Clark Jr., 49, Deputy Secretary of State, even though the appointee admits that his only firsthand experience for the job "was 72 hours in Santiago...
...Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. The vote ratified a new constitution that gives Pinochet, 64, at least eight more years as "transitional" President-and suggests the full rebirth of direct democracy only in 1997. As the returns trickled in, tens of thousands of jubilant demonstrators gathered outside the presidential headquarters in Santiago, waving banners and chanting "?Gracias a Pinochet!" Obviously moved, the dictator called the results a "heroic gesture" and a "triumph over Communism...
DIED. Haydeé Santamaria Cuadrado, 53, one of two women who took part in the July 26,1953, attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba that launched Fidel Castro's revolution; by her own hand; in Havana. She survived seven months of imprisonment after the abortive raid and eventually joined Castro's guerrillas in the Sierra Maestra until their victory...
...like what the Gannett Co., the nation's largest newspaper group (82 dailies with a combined circ. of 3.5 million), was doing to his Santa Fe New Mexican (circ. 17,960). So he sued to get it back, and last week he won. Federal District Judge Santiago Campos ordered Gannett to return the New Mexican after a six-member jury ruled that the chain had breached an employment contract McKinney signed when he sold the paper in late 1975. The publisher had also charged that Gannett never intended to fulfill the contract, but the jury found no evidence...
...program of government. The shocker: it was hardly socialist at all. Using West Germany as his model, González explained his main thrusts: a mixed economy with little nationalization, a firm commitment to join the European Economic Community and greater personal freedom for all Spaniards. Groused Communist Leader Santiago Carrillo: "This is not a program of the left." He was correct. In one stroke, González had proposed to sweep Spain's leftist ideology into the past and allay conservative fears of a renewed bloody confrontation with the Socialists. Editorialized Spain's leading news paper...