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"So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime."
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"It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations."

"We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching."

"The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them."

"Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries."

"Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime."

"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."

"When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it."
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"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."


"The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city."


"It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here."


"It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985."


"I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America."


"I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe."
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