Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials were considering whether to revise the 1954 Bilateral Assistance Military Agreement, under which the U.S. can bring a wide range of military equipment to Honduran soil, and in particular a secret 1982 appendix that made possible the creation of the Regional Military Training Center. The government of President Roberto Suazo Córdova has also been discreetly pressuring some 10,000 Honduran-based contras to move into Nicaragua. After playing host to as many as 5,000 U.S. servicemen and conducting joint military exercises with the U.S. almost continuously over the past 18 months, Honduras now houses fewer than...
...many Americans, Roberto d'Aubuisson, fiery leader of El Salvador's fiercest right-wing faction, represents the dangerous pitfalls of U.S. support for that troubled country. Somewhat similarly, Edén Pastora Gómez, the maverick "Commander Zero" of the Nicaraguan revolution who later took up arms against his victorious comrades, has come to illustrate the troubles of Washington's covert effort to put pressure on the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Both of these flamboyant figures happened to be in Washington last week just after the Senate voted overwhelmingly to cut aid to anti-Sandinista contra...
...President. Constantly asked by reporters about promised reforms ("Give me a few weeks, please," he said in general exasperation), Duarte seemed intent on moving cautiously. However, he did order an eleven-member military commission to 'Open an inquiry into the 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. Meanwhile, Roberto d'Aubuisson, Duarte's rightist rival in last month's elections, who was once accused by former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Robert White of plotting Romero's murder, received a visa to visit the U.S. After denying D'Aubuisson permission to enter the country...
...State, who Yallop claims had learned he would be replaced and who was upset that John Paul was allegedly considering loosening the church's prohibition on artificial birth control; Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, head of the Vatican Bank, who is said to have been scheduled for immediate removal; Roberto Calvi, president of Banco Ambrosiano, who faced ruin if his trickery with Vatican funds was discovered; Michele Sindona, the Sicilian banker who knew about the Vatican Bank's alleged laundering of Mafia money; Licio Gelli, grand master of P2, which is supposed to have boasted some 100 Vatican members...
...Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Roberto Suro/Rome, with other bureaus