Word: velazco
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...There are other terrorists out there, and we're going to keep a more careful eye on them." If they can, those guerrillas will try to show they are still in business with another attack. "Sure, this is a serious defeat," says the Tupac Amaru's European spokeswoman Norma Velazco. "But it is not over yet." Peru's other, larger terrorist organization, Shining Path, would probably like to stage some other outrage to dim Fujimori's victory...
...knew that he had to get rid of Velazco. Diplomatic observers saw it as the quid pro quo for Braden's resignation. Velazco represented the extreme anti-U.S. feeling in Argentina; his barb-tongued champions of "national dignity" continued to hack at Perón's new, conciliatory foreign policy...
...deep in Velazco's debt. Back in 1944, Velazco police had charged, sabers swinging, into the Buenos Aires crowds which had turned a mass celebration of the liberation of Paris into a tumultuous demonstration against Perón's pro-Nazi military regime. A year later, police and nationalists had sprung Juan Perón back to power after spontaneous democratic clamor forced him into a brief, one-day exile...
...Casa Rosada, chain-smoking strong "43" cigarets, trying to make up his mind. His decision was finally made between ballet numbers in Buenos Aires' rococo Teatro Colón. He dispatched quaking Interior Minister Angel Borlenghi to the block-square police headquarters in Calle Moreno to hand Velazco his ultimatum. Borlenghi had reason to quake; Velazco had publicly slapped him only four months before...
...those who expected a Velazco explosion were disappointed. He went quietly, and, for the time being, said nothing. Most Argentines expected that he would be heard from again...