Word: silvio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Talk about timing. With presidential elections just two weeks away, Silvio Santos, 58, one of Brazil's most popular television variety-show hosts, last week proclaimed himself a candidate. The startling announcement might have seemed laughable -- were Santos' challenge not so serious to the three leading contenders. If none of the candidates gets an absolute majority, the two leading candidates go forward from the first round of balloting on Nov. 15 to the runoff vote on Dec. 17. Within two days of Santos' announcement, newspaper polls showed the upstart candidate alternately in first and second place -- meaning...
...nervous," said Donna Petraglin, who said she has stayed home taking care of three children so that her husband, Silvio Petraglin, could put in long hours for LoPresti throughout the campaign...
...husband, who is LoPresti's coordinator, tried to boost the crowd's morale. "Hey, wake up everybody. This isn't the end. I got good news too," Silvio Petraglin said. "Cambridge did it before, they'll do it again...
...Enrique Bermudez, 56, the contras' commander in chief since 1981. The inclusion of Bermudez, who served in the National Guard of the dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, represents a major victory for hard-liners within the Resistance who believe that the Sandinistas can be dislodged only by military force. Said Silvio Arguello, vice president of the Assembly: "We're showing the whole world that we are politically prepared to reconquer Nicaragua...
...DYLAN: DOWN IN THE GROOVE (Columbia). Not a major statement from our most generative songwriter, but a raspy, relaxed session with four originals and some surprising remakes (Silvio, Death Is Not the End, Rank Strangers...