Word: silva
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joaquim Pineiro Da Silva, 27, a Portuguese cabin steward, learned of the slaying after one of the terrorists entered the ship's main lounge and motioned to him and Ferruccio Alberti, the cruise hairdresser. The two men were led to the upper deck, where they found Klinghoffer's body lying facedown in a pool of blood beside his overturned wheelchair. The terrorist gestured that they were to toss both the body and the wheelchair overboard. After hearing the body splash in the waters below, neither man looked over the rail. "I wanted to break into tears, but was unable...
...minority government. The right-of-center Social Democrats emerged as the leading party with 30% of the vote. But with about 85 seats in the 250-member parliament, they are well short of the majority needed to ensure a four-year tenure for the new Prime Minister, Anibal Cavaco Silva, 46. It was Cavaco Silva who triggered the collapse of the government last July when he pulled out of the coalition led by Socialist Prime Minister Mario Soares...
...dancers must be awarded to the impressive attention span of the kids. These fifth and sixth graders not only perform the steps set before them with laudable accuracy and energy, they manage also to remember all of the long and complex sequences. A special mention must go to Albert Silva who, while biting intently on his lower lip, dances with spirit and stage presence beyond his years...
...Buenos Aires, which will put hard-lining Argentina in a diplomatically stronger position. The group last week also produced 24 proposals for easing the cost of their debt, ranging from longer periods of repayment to reduced interest rates. One plan, suggested by Mexican Finance Secretary Jesús Silva Herzog, calls for Latin borrowers to pay a level of interest tied to the rates on bank certificates of deposit, currently about 11½%. This would give debtors a break of about 2½%, worth some $7 billion annually, while still allowing the banks to make a slight profit...
...take the earnings loss, while governments in the developed countries are reluctant to halt economic growth just to please foreign moneymen. Thus, no sudden solution is likely to emerge. Says one IMF official: "It is a negotiating process that will run through most of the 1980s." Mexican Finance Secretary Silva Herzog last week recalled Economist John Maynard Keynes' dictum: "Men will do the rational thing, but only after exploring all other alternatives." Silva Herzog then glumly added that Latin American debtors and U.S. bankers probably have a lot of exploring ahead of them. -By Stephen Koepp. Reported by Gisela...