In May 1982, the Conference of Catholic Bishops accused Ríos Montt of responsibility for growing militarization of the country and for continuing military massacres of civilians.

* 1982 – 268 campesinos (" peasants " or " country people ") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt's Guatemala.

* 1982 – Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.

Ríos Montt is best known outside Guatemala for heading a military regime ( 1982 – 1983 ) that was responsible for having defeated the guerrillas through the " guns and beans " campaign, maintaining " If you are with us, we ’ ll feed you, if not, we ’ ll kill you ".

Given Ríos Montt's staunch anticommunism and ties to the United States, the Reagan administration continued to support the general and his regime, paying a visit to Guatemala City in December 1982.

By the end of 1982, Ríos Montt, claiming that the war against the leftist guerrillas had been won, said that the government's work was one of " techo, trabajo, y tortillas " (" roofs, work, and tortillas ").

When in March 1982 General Efraín Ríos Montt took power in a coup he annulled the election results.

In March 1982, only one month after their formation, the URNG experienced an attack led by retired General Efraín Ríos Montt.

Paradoxically they gained their strongest support from the same rural communities that had most suffered under the former rule of Ríos Montt between 1982 and 1983.

He served until the military coup of Efraín Ríos Montt in March 1982.

She is the daughter of former military dictator and FRG founder Efraín Ríos Montt, the leader of the three-man junta that came to power by military coup in 1982.

In mid-2003, the FRG was again trying to get General Ríos Montt on to the presidential ticket, arguing that applying the constitutional ban preventing former coup leaders from seeking the presidency should not apply to him in accordance with the principle of nonretroactive application of the law: his 1982 coup d ' état preceded the enactment of the 1985 Constitution.

After assuming power in March 1982, defacto President Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt embarked on a military campaign that largely succeeded in breaking the insurgency, but at a terrible cost in human lives and human rights violations.

Sara Diamond's 1989 book Spiritual Warfare includes an account alleging that Loren Cunningham supported a 1982 coup by Efraín Ríos Montt in Guatemala, by drawing connections from an alleged meeting between an unnamed Rios Montt aide and a group of Christian representatives that may have included YWAM's founder, Loren Cunningham .< ref name =" SaraDiamond ">

On July 18, 1982, while General Efraín Ríos Montt was President of Guatemala, a massacre was committed there by government forces during which over 200 people were killed.

On 6 December 1982, during the de facto presidency of General Efraín Ríos Montt, over 200 people – including women, the elderly, and children – were killthere by commandos working as government forces as a part of the government's scorched earth policy, in which up to 200, 000 indigenous and Mayan people died.

He also worked and toured with Spanish singer Miguel Ríos, playing keyboards and flute, and appearing on three of Ríos ' albums: Extraños en el escaparate ( Strangers in the Shopwindow, 1981 ), Rock & Ríos ( 1982 ; double album ), and El rock de una noche de verano ( Midsummer Night's Rock, 1983 ).

Like other opposition parties, it initially welcomed the 1982 coup that brought Ríos Montt to power, but would press for the restoration of constitutional government.

Killings by both official and unofficial security forces would climax in the late 1970s and early 1980s under the presidencies of Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia and Efrain Rios Montt, with over 18, 000 documented killings in 1982 alone.

President Ronald Reagan claimed Guatemala's human rights conditions were improving and used this to justify several major shipments of military hardware to Rios Montt ; $ 4 million in helicopter spare parts and $ 6. 3 million in additional military supplies in 1982 and 1983 respectively.

In response to these pressures, junior military officers under the command of General Efrain Rios Montt staged a preventative coup d ' état on March 23, 1982.

“ A good video can sell a record which might not do so well ," Bubbles told Smash Hits magazine in 1982.

In 1982, Morrison told Forbes magazine that he had received about US $ 2 million in royalty payments and said: " I wouldn't change the name of it for the world.

It emerged during the campaign that what Lenihan had told friends and insiders in private flatly contradicted his public statements on a controversial effort in 1982 by the then opposition Fianna Fáil to pressure President Hillery into refusing a parliamentary dissolution to then Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald ; Hillery had resolutely rejected the pressure.

Just as Herzog had predicted when he told Smith the Cardinals would win the pennant with him on the team, Smith found himself as the team's starting shortstop in the best-of-seven 1982 World Series against the Milwaukee Brewers.

In 1982 Bob Smith ( Wolfman Jack ), ran into a radio engineer friend named Mike Venditti and he told Venditti that no one had been able to get XERF back on full power with its old RCA 250 kW transmitter, because RCA did not have any manuals relating to the equipment.

" All things are possible, like says ", Beckley told radio host Lew Irwin in 1982, but " it just doesn't seem in the cards.

The story of the scandal is told in David McClintick's 1982 bestseller Indecent Exposure.

In 1982, Yellowman was diagnosed with skin cancer and was initially told that he only had three more years to live.

The story of the trial was told in a 1982 miniseries for NBC Little Gloria ...

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher invoked the example of Churchill during the Falklands War of 1982: " When the American Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, urged her to reach a compromise with the Argentines she rapped sharply on the table and told him, pointedly, ' that this was the table at which Neville Chamberlain sat in 1938 and spoke of the Czechs as a faraway people about whom we know so little '.

The Progressive Democrats, Fianna Fáil's coalition partner, told Charles Haughey that unless Lenihan was either dismissed or an inquiry set up into the events of January 1982 it would pull out of government, support the opposition motion and force a general election.

At a New York pro-Solidarity rally in 1982, Sontag stated that " people on the left ", like herself, " have willingly or unwillingly told a lot of lies ".

It became an obsession ," Yeston told The New York Times in 1982.

In her biography published in 1982, Susan Crosland claimed her husband had told her " If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to destroy every fucking grammar school in England.

" In 1982, he was playing with the when Jimmy Conway, a former Timbers team mate, called Charles and told him of an opening at the Reynolds High School boy's soccer team in Troutdale, Oregon.

In 1982, Lee told Rolling Stone Magazine that the album's title referred to " a theory that was going the band about, like, culture waves ; and there was a night when Neil said that a big album was like a permanent wave and I told him, ' that's our title.

A member of the Air Training Corps, he studied at Queens ' College, Cambridge, ( with Stephen Fry who when he told him he was going to space mocked him ) receiving a doctorate in laboratory astrophysics in 1982.

The story of Salazar's 1982 win at the Boston Marathon and his subsequent competitive decline is told in Duel in the Sun, a book by John Brant.

Kara Karayev died in 1982, but his son Faradzh Karayev has testified in 1999 that his father had read the German translation of Testimony and told his family that " Mitya Shostakovich couldn't have written this, let alone allowed its publication.

Frith told Down Beat magazine in 1982:

Krantz told the Boston Globe in 1982 that she attended Wellesley with three goals: to date, to read every novel in the library, and to graduate.

At the high tide of the nuclear freeze movement in 1982, Cardinal Krol told 15, 000 demonstrators at a Philadelphia rally that it was time for governments " to dismantle existing nuclear weapons.

In 1981, Pyotr Grigorenko told about his psychiatric examinations and hospitalizations in his memoirs V Podpolye Mozhno Vstretit Tolko Krys ( In Underground One Can Meet Only Rats ) translated into English under the title Memoirs in 1982.