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...dribs and drabs. The aim of the new policy is to sow the seeds for future peace talks and eventually to help the FARC regain the status of legitimate war combatants, which the international community still refuses to confer on it. The strategy is partly the doing of Alfonso Cano, who was named the FARC's maximum leader last March following the death, at the age of 78, of Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, the guerrillas' cunning but stubborn founding father. Though a hard-line Marxist, Cano, 60, who grew up in Bogota and attended a university there, "sees the world differently...
...Colombia's military intelligence has been able to infiltrate the FARC's top hierarchy, the secretariat, in recent months. A government mole had been able to convince those bosses to transfer Betancourt and the 14 other hostages to the encampment of the FARC's new No. 1 leader, Alfonso Cano. Under the yoke of a FARC unit led by Comandante Cesar, the group made its way to a smaller camp belonging to a friendly NGO. "They tied our hands and feet," Betancourt later told Colombian radio, describing how the rebels had transported the hostages, who thought they were going...
Arma virumque cano: Recitations of Select Greek and Latin Classics Memorial Church: Appleton Chapel...
...Madrid, suddenly donned skirts. In an effort to promote "equality in traffic safety," the town has begun installing lights that flash up alternate male and female figures; metal signs are also being amended. "[Old] traffic signals leave half the population invisible," says local police chief José Francisco Cano. The inspiration for change came from the city of Lugo, which marked International Women's Day 2006 by taping transparencies of female figures over the standard striding males on traffic signals. Fuenlabrada's solution will be more permanent. So far, only four egalitarian signals and 25 metal signs are in place...
While the specifics of the recipe could not be revealed, the staff could reveal the general process of creating the beloved rolls. Cano starts by mixing flour, soy oil, yeast, sugar and salt. His dough is refrigerated at 39 degrees for up to 12 hours. To make rolls from the dough, he lets chilled dough rise at room temperature for an hour and a half before dipping balls in cornmeal and baking them at 375 degrees for 15 minutes...