Word: alejandro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...telephone contacts occured only a short time after Townley arrived in the U.S. with an official passport falsely identifying him as Juan Williams Rose. He entered the country with Armando Fernandez Larios, a Chilean army captain whose official passport identified him as Alejandro Romeral Jara...
...initials D.C, stand for Disco Capital, say the night stalkers. The most opulent place in town is Pisces, where the decor runs to old R.K.O. set designs, 1,000-gal. shark-filled aquariums, 18-ft. laser-lit cascades and tropical flora. Members include Liz Taylor, Gregory Peck and Alejandro Orfila, secretary-general of the Organization of American States, who last October auctioned off three rare 24-in.-high falabella ponies on the dance floor. The newest In place is The Apple Tree. The interior resembles a cross between a carpenter's loft and a berserk florist's, with...
Gaslight Phenomena, the exhibit of kinetic light sculpture by Alejandro Sina at the Institute of Contemporary Art until May 1, is just that kind of art. It is fun to be hypnotized by the pieces that whirl in intricate patterns, to touch the "Touch Bulbs" and to gaze at the gently swaying hanging pices...
...accompanied by his attractive wife Sofia. Juan Carlos had assumed temporary powers for the second time as chief of state during Franco's final illness, but for two days after his death control of the government reverted to a three-man Council of Regency, headed by Cortes President Alejandro Rodrigues de Valcarcel...
Architects of the fiasco were General Raul Gonzalez Alvear, the army chief of staff, and his brother-in-law General Alejandro Soils Rosera, head of the national war college. Their muzzy plot−"it must have been brewed before cocktails and executed after," as one foreign diplomat put it−was to surround the national palace in Quito and force the resignation of roly-poly President Rodriguez (known informally to his countrymen as el Bombita, or the little balloon), who has been Ecuador's benign, reformist dictator since leading a successful military coup in 1972. Setting up headquarters...