Word: camino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stepped from his bulletproof Mercedes-Benz, cheering well-wishers mobbed President-elect Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo outside the headquarters of his Christian Democratic Party at Guatemala City's Camino Real Hotel. Cerezo, a 42-year-old lawyer, had just been declared the victor in a runoff election for the Guatemalan presidency. The second round of balloting came after national elections last month failed to produce a candidate with a majority. This time Cerezo captured 68% of the vote, soundly defeating his opponent, Newspaper Owner Jorge Carpio Nicolle, 53, of the center-right National Center Union Party. Even Christian Democratic Party leaders...
...careful and heed the advice of the bellboys at the Sheraton El Salvador or the Camino Real in San Salvador, a fabulous spring or summer vacation is waiting for you. "I was down there in December, and I swear--if you didn't read the newspapers or listen to the radio, you'd never know there was a war going on," reports Gloria Malloy, a manager for TACA, the El Salvador an airline. "It was so peaceful in the city...
...Salvador, you'll find comfortable--and relatively inexpensive--places to stay. The biggest and best are the 213-room Sheraton El Salvador, at $65 for a mountain-view room and $61 for lower floors. Or you can mingle with the world press corps at the 237-room Western International Camino Real, which journalists have just about taken over...
...deaths-the eleventh and twelfth of foreign journalists in Central America since 1979, but the first in more than a year-sent alternating eddies of lament and reminiscence through the men's colleagues. At the Hotel Maya in Tegucigalpa, and at the Hotel Camino Real in El Salvador's capital, San Salvador, some reporters halfheartedly second-guessed the fatal venture, as if to suggest it need not have happened. The road was known to be dangerous, they argued: two British journalists had been fired on in separate incidents in the previous few days; in his final week Cross...
...quarters alarm Cassaleria. He needs to see the sky. And barns are too dark. So a special open-air shed was constructed at Churchill Downs by his gang of part owners. They have not been able to do enough for Cassaleria since last November, when he won the El Camino Real Derby at Bay Meadows in San Mateo, Calif. After the race they realized that his good eye had been covered over with mud. He had run blind. The track was fast last Saturday, but Cassaleria ran 13th. He never seemed to be leading with the correct foot. "Cassaleria didn...