Word: paraguayans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ASUNCION, Paraguay--Former Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner yesterday boarded a jetliner at the airport that bears his name and flew to exile in Brazil, his 34-year-old grip on this nation ended by a military coup that left hundreds dead...
...Brazilian government to chose the place Stroessner will go, at least initially," Paraguayan ambassador Salvador Paredes said in the federal capital of Brasilia...
...chorus of 200,000 serenaded Pope John Paul II, who had just turned 68, with a thundering Happy Birthday last week in the Paraguayan town of Encarnacion. During a later appearance, the impassioned chant "Freedom, freedom, freedom!" greeted the Pontiff. The cry was really meant for Paraguay's ironfisted dictator, General Alfredo Stroessner, and the Pope quietly echoed...
Larson lives and works in a spacious Tudor-style house in suburban Seattle. His artistic sensibility invades his home: a papier-mache python winds through the living room, and a bright green Paraguayan tree frog croaks in a terrarium. At Christmas a wreath festooned with a rubber chicken hangs on the front door. Larson, clad usually in T shirt, jeans and running shoes, carries sketchbooks wherever he goes, doodling and jotting down phrases. But the hard labor takes place at the drawing board overlooking Union Bay, where he sits and stares, and stares and sits, until the ideas flow...
...winners remained incredulous even after they had double-, triple- and quadruple-checked the lucky ticket, one of 21 they had purchased and agreed to share. Celso Manuel Garcete, the Paraguayan who had picked the numbers at random, said it all for the group: "I'm a little nervous, surprised, excited. It's a very big change." What more was there to say? By equally splitting their almost $13.7 million share of the jackpot, they will each receive 21 annual after-tax payments of about $24,000, starting this year. As the winners contemplated new houses and cars and college tuition...