Word: canoes
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Broadcast journalists are perhaps the most at risk. Pool techniques do not work for on-the-air reporters, who can be identified by their faces or voices. Despite Pulido's bravery, many print-news executives, in fact, share the feeling of El Espectador director Juan Guillermo Cano, 35. Says he: "I think the radio people are more intimidated, and it shows in their reporting." In some cases, darker forces than fear may be at work. A small radio network, Radial 2000, was listed among the business interests of Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, the Bogota Mafia superchief who is wanted by authorities...
Sunrise was more than an hour off, and most of Managua was still asleep when the bombs exploded. "The earth moved," recalled Sergio Cano, a laborer. "We thought the gringos had started bombing." The blast in the Nicaraguan capital signaled neither an earthquake nor an armed invasion from the north but an unusually bold contra attack on an electrical tower. While residents slumbered in the dusty neighborhood of Domitila Lugo, rebels had scaled the high-voltage pylon and placed explosives on the metal crossbars. The explosion shattered windows and broke dishes in nearby homes, but no one was hurt. Indeed...
Guillermo Cano had just driven away from the Bogota offices of El Espectador in a Subaru packed with Christmas presents when two men on a motorcycle pulled alongside and opened fire with a submachine gun. Cano, 61, editor of the newspaper for 34 years, died 20 minutes later...
...Cano, an outspoken opponent of Colombia's drug cartel, is believed to be the victim of the country's ruthless cocaine kings, who annually murder dozens % of judges, police and journalists who attempt to expose their activities. After the shooting, an angry President Virgilio Barco signed back into law a U.S.-Colombia extradition treaty that had been invalidated by a technicality, and decreed stiffer penalties for drug violations. Barco, who attended Cano's funeral, denounced the drug lords as men "with no God" who "stop at nothing...
...sing of warfare and a man at war." Fitzgerald's version of The Aeneid's first words ("Arma virumque cano") veers sharply away from the traditional reading in English, enshrined in the title of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man. Yet singing of arms and the man was not all that Virgil's fellow Romans in the 1st century B.C. would have understood him to mean. They had already been thoroughly schooled on who Aeneas was and what he had, in legend, accomplished; neither his identity nor his military prowess could have been...