Word: alejandro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years and to sponsor him for citizenship. On Nov. 27, 1959, he was issued nationality card No. 293348 and took up residence in Paraguay under the name Jose Mengele. For the most part, he stayed in the lush farm country around Hohenau, near the Brazilian border, where, according to Alejandro von Eckstein, one of the men who sponsored him for citizenship, he remained "very reserved and very melancholy...
...time knock on the door. One citizen last week recalled how he had won a colonel's admiration by surviving a five- hour torture session; another remembered seeing a presidential press secretary stretched out on a billiard table with electric wires attached to his mouth and toes. Former President Alejandro Lanusse told of how he had once reproached a police officer for failing to report the discovery of a body. "Don't forget, General," the man had responded, "more than 8,000 bodies have been thrown in the river...
...rightists could receive, as well as to give them greater vote-getting power. According to a local political analyst, "It could mean the difference between whether the Christian Democrats control 85 of the 203 larger municipalities or only 45 of them." The legislation would also prohibit Duarte's son Alejandro from seeking a second term as mayor of San Salvador...
...presidential compound accompanied by his omnipresent bodyguards. "Nappo," as friends call him, dabbles at landscape painting, but he seeks relaxation mainly in talking politics with cronies or with Inés, his wife of 35 years. Sometimes he seeks out one of his six grown children for political advice: Alejandro, 33, is mayor of San Salvador, a job the elder Duarte held for six years...
...largely offset, however, by a corresponding drop in the death rate). Abortions are still banned, unless the mother's life is endangered or she has been raped, but about 1 million women have them performed illegally every year. About 10,000 of these women die. Says Gynecologist Alejandro Hernández: "The knowledge of contraceptives here is minimal...