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...move that surprised even his closest aides, Premier Carlos Arias Navarro, 67, went to Madrid's Royal Palace and submitted his resignation to the King. Juan Carlos, according to the constitution, had ten days to choose a new Premier. Last Saturday, he named Adolfo Suárez González, the secretary general of Spain's only legal party, the National Movement. A close friend of the King, Suárez, 43, has been a leading advocate of the government's reform program...
...following page). Continuing his global effort to inspire confidence in America's reliability, Kissinger also pledged "to enforce our commitment to mutual security ... against those who would seek to threaten independence or export violence" -meaning the Cubans. In fact, it was Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Pérez who, in his private talks with Kissinger, raised the new "hemispheric reality" of Cuba's Angolan intervention...
...squealing 60-m.p.h. climb from the sea-level airport up to Caracas, where Kissinger placed a wreath at the Simon Bolivar shrine. "Your Secretary of State is a Yankee torbellino [whirlwind]," marveled one Caracas motorcycle cop. Near the end of the visit, a local journalist asked President Pérez if Kissinger had broken the ice between the two countries. Pérez's reply: "Ice doesn't grow in tropical countries...
...fighters streaked in formation across the sky; a band struck up the national anthem; and Venezuela's President Carlos Andrés Pérez hoisted a red, yellow and blue tricolor over Venezuela's first commercial oil well on New Year's Day. Then cannon boomed their salute to the flag, whose position atop the well symbolized one of the most gentlemanly nationalizations in history...
...skepticism of French police, some of the hostages said that the gang's leader did not look like pictures of Carlos. But Venezuela's oil minister, Valentín Hernàndez Acosta, insisted that "the head of the commandos was definitely Ilyich Ramírez Sànchez, alias Carlos." Added another OPEC official: "If Carlos is a Latin American of medium height who speaks Spanish, French, English, German and Arabic, and if he is a cool killer who can also be polite to his hostages, then probably it was Carlos who kept us here...