Word: uruguayans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that many fans had started to drift toward the exits. But something happened during the ninth race on Sept. 23 that stopped the exodus and sent horseplayers back to stare at the tote board with envious wonderment. After leading most of the way, a 57-to-1 long-shot Uruguayan import named Lebón had breezed easily to a four-length win-and returned $116 for every $2 laid down by his few faithful followers...
...winner. "Hi, Doc," the stablehand said. The salutation was for Dr. Mark Gerard, veterinarian to Secretariat during that Triple Crown winner's racing days and a familiar face to Belmont backstretchers. The chance encounter with the courier was to prove very troublesome. Three weeks later, a Uruguayan newspaperman called the Jockey Club steward at Belmont and told him that the horse in the winner's circle photograph was not Lebón but Cinzano, Uruguay's 1976 Horse of the Year. That brought Gerard under suspicion of engineering a horse-swapping "sting...
...ears simultaneously, which often causes excruciatingly painful rupture of the ear drums. In the Hook, the victim is hoisted off the ground by his hands, which are tied behind his back in such a way that the stretching of the nerves often causes paralysis of the arms. Says one Uruguayan torture victim: "People on the Hook cannot take a deep breath or hardly any breath. They just moan; it's a dreadful, almost inhuman noise...
Last month, for example, 40 heavily armed men, clad in a variety of makeshift uniforms, staged a commando-style raid on two hotels run by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Buenos Aires. They herded 26 captives -24 Chileans, a Uruguayan and the Paraguayan manager of one of the hotels -into waiting cars. All 26 turned up the next day, many testifying to beatings and electrical torture in what they believed to be a military barracks. The refugees-most of whom left Chile following the overthrow of Salvador Allende-had been warned to leave the country within...
Torres' murder was the third in a grisly series of spectacular political killings that have tainted the nation-saving image won by Argentina's military junta in their virtually bloodless ouster of the incompetent Isabel Peron last March. Three weeks ago, two former Uruguayan legislators, Zelmar Michelini and Hector Gutierrez Ruiz, were seized in separate commando-style raids. Their bodies were found four days later in an abandoned car, together with the corpses of two other Uruguayans who had earlier been involved with the Tupamaro guerrillas...