Word: florencio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Master Gary Kasparov, 22, that ended abruptly last February. Victory was to have gone to the first player to win six games. But 48 grueling confrontations, held over five long months, produced just five wins for Karpov, three for Kasparov and an astonishing 40 draws. World Chess Federation President Florencio Campomanes finally halted the match, explaining, some thought lamely, that the players were exhausted. But no one nodded off last week as Karpov and Kasparov met for a rematch in Moscow's Tchaikovsky Hall. Challenger Kasparov won the first game in 41 moves, and the second ended in a draw...
Last week, after five months and 48 games, with Karpov haggardly hanging on to a 5-3 lead but unable for twelve wearying weeks to achieve the match- winning sixth victory, World Chess Federation President Florencio Campomanes stepped in to stop the battle. At a Moscow press conference, Campomanes, who under world chess rules wields practically unlimited power, said he had acted because the contest "has exhausted the physical if not the psychological resources not only of the players but of all those connected with the match." To many--not least the hard-charging Kasparov, who had won the last...
Next day the drama was repeated at Moreno, 24 miles west of the Argentine capital: 14 bodies were uncovered. A city councilman in the working-class suburb of Florencio Varela announced that he believed at least 30 unidentified corpses were buried in his town's cemetery; in Casilda, 160 miles north of Buenos Aires, a lawyer investigating the 1976 disappearance of two Peronist-party activists spoke of ten bodies that might be found there...