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Those familiar with the Mendes case, including the lawyers, believe the verdict is in. "I would be very surprised -- shocked, is more like it -- if the jury does not find them guilty," says Marcio Thomaz Bastos, the chief prosecutor. Defense lawyer Joao Lucena Leal considers acquittal so unlikely that he is preparing an appeal. "It is going to be impossible to have a fair trial," Leal says. "With the eyes of the world on Xapuri, what you are going to witness is two men who had nothing to do with the killing being sacrificed." If convicted, the Da Silvas could...
...government's second major effort to force miners off Yanomami lands. In May troops blew up 14 landing strips and drove out all but 8,000 of the 40,000 invaders. No sooner had the soldiers left, however, than the garimpeiros returned and rebuilt some of the airstrips. Says Joao Carlos Nicolli, regional administrator of the federal Indian agency: "The big gold lords weren't touched in the first operation. It was a show for the foreigners." He thinks the government is more serious this time. One sign: troops destroyed an airstrip belonging to Jose Altino Machado, a prominent garimpeiro...
Daniel Ortega Saavedra hit the road at 5 a.m., bound for the northwestern city of Ocotal, where several thousand supporters awaited him. The same day, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro met in her airy Managua home with advisers of her National Opposition Union (U.N.O.), then received a courtesy call from Joao Baena Soares, secretary-general of the Organization of American States. Next door, Chamorro's aides frantically tried to add more appearances to her schedule, despite doctors' orders not to tax her limited stamina...
...group of rebels was apparently trapped by the army as it moved along a ravine behind the Sheraton, and fled into the shelter of the lobby. The guerrillas probably did not know that among the guests were the Green Berets and Joao Baena Soares, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, who was trying to work out a cease-fire. As the rebels took up residence in the Sheraton's VIP Tower, Salvadoran commandos hurriedly escorted Soares out of the hotel and drove him away in an armored car. The Green Berets were not so fortunate. Armed with...
...Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar and his Organization of American States counterpart, Joao Clemente Baena Soares, opened the meeting, then turned the mediation effort over to aides...