Word: venezuelan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month later Duarte incautiously gave vocal support to a coup by young, reform-minded Salvadoran army officers. When the revolt was crushed, Duarte was hauled from his sanctuary in a Venezuelan diplomatic residence, held incommunicado and brutally beaten. His cheekbones still bear indentations from that torture. Telegrams from Pope Paul VI, Richard Nixon and Notre Dame President Theodore Hesburgh brought about his release; Duarte spent the next seven years in exile in Venezuela...
...course, been no secret that the Reagan Administration was hoping for a victory by the Christian Democrats. It has also been open knowledge in San Salvador that the Venezuelan Institute of Popular Education (IVEPO) has been used as a conduit for foreign assistance to the Christian Democrats. This became visible last February when Duarte's ill-funded party suddenly began using glossy posters, lavish billboards and slick TV ads. D'Aubuisson's Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) retaliated by running a newspaper ad accusing the Venezuelan government of meddling in Salvadoran affairs. On Saturday, in another full-page...
Ricardo J. Sansone, a Venezuelan citizen, was released on personal recognizance after pleading not guilty to allegedly hitting Thomas F. Kennedy Jr., a Brookline resident, on Rte. 1-93 in Andover early Monday morning. Assistant District Attorney Charles M. Hughes said yesterday...
...song written for the great jazz vocalist Carmen McRae, and yes, when he plays the tune live, he is often asked whether Samba for Carmen was inspired by the star of those '40s musicals who wore fruit on her hats. He is also exploring the tricky intricacies of Venezuelan music, which remains relatively insulated from outside influences and whose rhythms he describes as "very complicated, very interesting...
...least five ideologically diverse groups promptly claimed "credit" for the bombings. From one of these groups re-emerged the Venezuelan terrorist Illitch Ramirez-Sánchez, better known as the infamous and long-sought "Carlos," who in 1982 masterminded a previous French train bombing. His Organization of Armed Arab Struggle announced in several phone calls to the press that the bombings were in response to last November's air raids on Shi'ite Muslim barracks in the ancient Lebanese city of Baalbek. At least 39 people died in those raids. But it is also possible that the most...