Word: caballero
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...anarchists and the Trotskyites rose up in Barcelona but were crushed after a desperate struggle. The government blamed the Trotskyites leaders and dupes who engaged in "conscious lying, conscious provocation conscious support for Fascism." The Comintern engineered a switch in leadership, from the revolutionary socialist Largo Caballero to the moderate Negrin According to Carr. "The revolutionary ardor so easily whipped up in the summer and autumn of 1936 to fire the struggle against Fascism, had given place to the cool calculations of diplomacy: Spain was a pawn on the Eruopean chess board...
...Patricia Caballero...
Melonville is headquarters for the program's SCTV satellite net work. Its production offices are located between an H&R Block tax center and a nuclear-waste disposal dump. SCTV President Guy Caballero, a sleazebag in a modified Panama and a white three-piece blend, appears frequently on-camera to bilk, berate or fawn before his audience. Un like one former President of the U.S., who did not like to be photo graphed in his wheelchair, President Caballero will not show up in public without his. He has no physical need for it, understand; he merely finds it useful...
...programmer, Mrs. Prickley has a record at least as distinguished as Fred Silverman's. Among her winners: The Sammy Maudlin Show, a Caballero-in-spired festival of show-biz glitz presided over by a rump-bussing host and a couple of regular guests, Entertainer Lola Heatherton, whose specialty is a piercing rendition of New York, New York, and Funnyman Bobby Bittman, whose jokes are as tarnished as his gold chains; and The Great White North, a public service program in which two dim-bulb brothers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, swill brew, cook back bacon and discuss such issues...
...flotilla of heavily armed vehicles. The armor for many of the vulnerable VIPs is provided by Protection Argentina y Seguridad, a company that started out building armored trucks for banks. "We can make a car like James Bond's, with all his devices in it," claims Miguel Angel Caballero, the company's director. "The only thing we haven't managed yet is to make one that will fly." For about $7,000, P.A.Y.S. will transform any regular production-model Argentine car into a rolling fortress, with sufficient armor to withstand small-arms fire and yet maneuverable enough...