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Lacayo toils 14 hours a day in an office that would be used by Vice President Virgilio Godoy Reyes if he and Chamorro were on better terms. Until this month, Lacayo's sister Silvia was the country's treasurer, and her husband Alfredo Cesar Aguirre is president of the National Assembly. Lacayo's cousin heads the Central Bank, and all three national newspapers are directed by Chamorros, including the pro-government La Prensa, where Lacayo's wife Cristiana is president. During a two-hour interview, Lacayo bristled at the suggestion that he and his family wield inordinate power...
...cooking-oil companies that benefited from foreign donations of cooking oil last year. The government sold the oil to the firms at below market price; they turned around and sold it to consumers for nearly twice what they had paid. While admitting the companies turned a handsome profit, Alfredo Marin, Gracsa's general manager, maintains, "The government has done nothing, nothing, nothing, for this company...
...that she feels it could upset the vocal balance she has spent a lifetime achieving. Luciano Pavarotti has just won acclaim for his first Otello, and most musical experts think he was right to wait until age 55 to try the heroic role. The list of parts that tenor Alfredo Kraus, 63, will not touch reads almost like a chart of opera's greatest hits, including Cavaradossi in Tosca and Rodolfo in La Boheme. Kraus sticks strictly to lighter parts that do not strain his pure, lyric voice...
...Isidro, Costa Rica. It was there that the Sandinistas, in effect, repudiated the F.M.L.N. The declaration Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega signed at San Isidro called for the Salvadoran guerrillas to "immediately and effectively cease hostilities and join the process of dialogue." The document also expressed Ortega's support of Alfredo Cristiani's Salvadoran government as democratic, something Managua had previously never conceded. "We choked hard on that one," says a former Ortega adviser. "Of course we didn't believe it, but our backs were against the wall. It seemed that the whole world was down on us. Even the Soviets...
...coffee. The 30- sec. spot, which aired earlier this month on CBS affiliate WHDH in Boston, accuses Procter & Gamble of prolonging the ten-year civil war in El Salvador by buying Salvadoran coffee beans, the country's leading export, and thereby supporting the right-wing government of President Alfredo Cristiani...