Word: alvarado
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Rich Kids is a snappy title, it does not fit this fashionable, smart-talking New York comedy. The film's twelve-year-old hero and heroine, Jamie (Jeremy Levy) and Franny (Trini Alvarado), are rich all right, but Rich Kids has no interest in the vicissitudes of wealth. The movie is actually about the effect of divorce on children-an equally good subject, but one that deserves more justice than it receives here. As the cute but empty title indicates, Rich Kids would rather be glib than honest...
Some Third World regimes are also having second thoughts about socialism. Peru was pushed to the edge of bankruptcy by seven years of Peruvian socialism concocted by General Juan Velasco Alvarado, who was ousted in 1975. The country's new military rulers have substantially modified Velasco laws under which workers would have been able to wrest control of firms from their owners...
DIED. General Juan Velasco Alvarado, 67, former left-leaning military president of Peru; in Lima. Velasco seized power in a 1968 coup and nationalized U.S. oil and copper firms. His land reform gave millions of acres to peasants, but Velasco's growing dictatorial powers led to his ousting by more moderate officers...
General Morales himself had dislodged a slightly more leftist and much more mercurial President, General Juan Velasco Alvarado, only last August, and is understandably aware that nothing is permanent in this world. But the vast chambers and corridors of the executive palace were bare of police and soldiers the day after the latest shakeup, and the general was calm and self-assured. "My security is given me by my work," he said...
...crowd was cheering everything, from Yaz and Loo-ee to Claudel Washington and even Flight 502. An occasional cry went up for Luis Alvarado and Jose Santiago (remember them?). Four fans sang the national anthem...