Word: silva
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talks went nowhere until Jesuús Silva Herzog, Mexico's Finance Secretary, suddenly suggested a multinational loan for Argentina. Everyone liked the idea, and by the time the Punta del Este conference broke up on Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury was taking the lead in hammering out the details of a rescue plan. For the next 48 hours, negotiators and financial technicians worked almost round the clock in both Buenos Aires and Washington. Representatives of Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia joined in by telephone...
SENTENCED. John Cordeiro, 24; Victor Raposo, 23; and Daniel Silva, 27; Portuguese immigrant laborers who were convicted in a nationally televised trial of gang raping a woman in a neighborhood tavern; each to nine to twelve years in prison; in Fall River, Mass. A fourth defendant, Joseph Vieira, 28, received six to eight years on the same aggravated rape charge...
...Victor Raposo, 23, two of the six men charged with gang-raping a 21-year-old woman on a New Bedford, Mass., barroom pool table in March 1983; in Fall River, Mass. Two other defendants were acquitted at last week's trial; the final two, Daniel Silva, 27, and Joseph Vieira, 28, were found guilty on March...
...proceedings went to the jury late last week, and guilty verdicts were handed down against two of the defendants, Daniel Silva, 27, and Joseph Vieira, 28. Local news organizations-many of which have assigned women to cover the trial-have kept their reportage generally restrained. But an interview with Defendant Victor Raposo in the Boston Herald has caused a ruckus in and out of court. When Reporter John Impemba questioned Raposo for three hours last August, he worked for the Standard-Times in New Bedford, which declined to publish the story. In February, Impemba was hired by the Herald...
...epidemic has turned Brazilian banks into virtual shooting galleries. Dozens of innocent bystanders have been killed in the gunplay. Authorities say that in one notorious incident, Franklin Pedro da Silva was holding up a Sāo Paulo bank when he was distracted by a crying baby. "Shut it up or I'll kill it!" he reportedly shouted, then summarily executed the eight-month-old infant and its mother with a pistol...