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...DIED. VIRGILIO BARCO, 75, Colombian President whose social reforms were undercut by his unrelenting war against cocaine barons; of stomach cancer; in Bogota. A former mayor, the owlish-eyed, professorial Barco stammered his way to the presidential palace in 1986. With neither flair nor fanfare, he hunkered down to combat poverty and drugs until his administration was overrun by vengeful cartels...
After identifying the two suspects they caught, the officers released one and arrested the other, Virgilio O. Costa, for receiving stolen property over...
...Culture Ernesto Cardenal, a Trappist monk. That same year the Pope, after returning from his second trip to Poland, was ired by an article in L'Osservatore Romano -- the semiofficial Vatican daily -- that criticized Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement. The article was signed by deputy editor Don Virgilio Levi. Dressed down by the Vatican's Under Secretary of State, Levi proposed to run a retraction. But the official pointed sternly to the pen and paper on his desk. "The Holy Father wants you to write your resignation," he said. "Now!" (This year, too, the Vatican pressured Father Jean-Bertrand...
Within 24 hours, Comandante 31 and his band of ex-Sandinista officials responded by storming the Managua headquarters of the conservative National Opposition Union (U.N.O.). Seizing 34 people including Vice President Virgilio Godoy Reyes, they demanded the release of the El Zungano hostages and U.S. war reparations of $17 billion. For six days, Nicaraguans feared the worst as mediators sought a compromise between the outlaw bands. Finally, both sides agreed to free all hostages, and the government and former contras signed an eight-point plan aimed at alleviating tensions...
...Spain's integration into the European single market, a source of pride after decades of diplomatic isolation. This year's bold gamble of staging a world's fair and an Olympics will "show the world the image of a modern Spain, far from the cliches of the past," says Virgilio Zapatero, the Cabinet Minister in charge of Expo...