Word: cordero
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...severely affected, the picture changed. Last week it had become clear that the quakes, which were followed by hundreds of aftershocks, constituted one of the worst natural disasters ever in the tiny South American country. As estimates of the dead rose above 1,000, a shaken President Leon Febres Cordero, fresh from viewing the stricken areas by helicopter, proclaimed, "We are facing the biggest, most profound and complex problem in our history...
...exports, which in recent years have accounted for 60% of the country's export earnings. Already hard hit by falling prices of crude oil, in the wake of the earthquakes Ecuador suspended all payments on its $8.2 billion foreign debt for the rest of this year. Febres Cordero said he took the action "without shame...
Leon Febres Cordero, Ecuador's President, is a free man again after a bizarre incident last week in which he was held hostage for eleven hours at an air base by rebellious air force officers. Febres Cordero and his Defense Minister were captured after a brief fire fight that left two people dead...
...crisis lasted until the government met the rebels' demands and released former Air Force General Frank Vargas Pazos, known by the nickname Loco, who was jailed last March after leading a failed rebellion. Febres Cordero and the Defense Minister were released when Vargas arrived in a special government plane. Febres Cordero said he would not punish "those armed elements that took part in this action...
...flight jacket from Navy Secretary John Lehman, presented on the 40th anniversary of a bombing raid in which Bush was shot down at sea near Iwo Jima. In the self-improvement category, Bush received a 29-volume history of Ecuador (in Spanish), presented to him by President Leon Febres Cordero, while Reagan presumably had more fun with his gift of six movies on videocassette...