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...that he cleanse the armed forces of their links with the coun try's death squads. A week earlier, Vides Casanova had removed Colonel Nicolas Carranza from his post as head of the Treasury Police. Duarte's most sweeping decision so far is to split up the command of the regular army and the country's three security forces, which are considered the breeding ground of the death squads. In stead of reporting directly to Casanova, the National Guard, National Police and Treasury Police will answer to Colonel Reynaldo Lopez Nuila, the newly named vice minister...
...primary target of the intermediate and upper level courses is to give students a practical command of the language, according to Rivers. For example, the recently created Spanish Cd, "Spanish Oral Survival Course," was designed so that "if a student were helicoptered into Spain tomorrow, he or she could communicate," Rivers explained...
...coat in the trunk of her automobile is just one sign of Feinstein's highly involved, hands-on governing style. She also has a police call number (1-M-600) and keeps a navy blue, civil defense jumpsuit in her car in case she ever needs to assume command after a major earthquake. In the day-to-day affairs of San Francisco, which she has run with increasing sureness for the past five years, virtually no detail is too minor to claim her attention. For her efforts, she can point to some impressive results: San Francisco ended its past...
...audience, Isabel and Alfonsín exchanged effusive compliments, then met for 35 minutes behind closed doors. When they emerged, Alfonsín remarked, "We don't have important differences. All we have to discuss is tactics." Said Isabel: "You know, Mr. President, I'm at your command." Replied Alfonsín: "It's mutual...
DIED. Semyon F. Romanov, 63, colonel general in the Soviet armed forces who was chief of staff of the air defense forces last September when a fighter plane under his overall command shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 with a loss of 269 lives, and who defended the Soviet action four days later in Pravda; "in the line of duty," the customary phrase for a military officer; in East Germany, where he had just been assigned as a representative of the Soviet marshal commanding the Warsaw Pact forces, an apparent demotion that fueled speculation about a possible purge...