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...Acapulco Princess Hotel, Christina Acosta of Miami Beach was celebrating her 24th birthday when she saw the wall of her room "just crack straight down from the ceiling to the floor. The noise was terrible. It was the longest minute and a half of my life. I thought, 'This is it; I made it to 24 and now it's all over.' " When the rocking stopped, the damage was surprisingly small, even though Acapulco was only 150 miles from the epicenter. The radar at the city's airport was knocked out, stranding travelers for a time, and there...
Among the area's clothing manufacturers is Antonio Acosta, 40, owner of Tony and Toni Fashions in nearby Hialeah. It makes sportswear and has annual revenues of about $500,000. Acosta, who left Cuba for the U.S. at 16, headed for the garment district, one of the few sources of jobs for Cuban newcomers. Says he: "When I came to Miami in 1960, I didn't speak any English. I had no money and no job. I started as a sweeper, cleaning the factory." After mastering various industry skills, Acosta sank his savings into a garment- cutting service...
Last week Secretary of Justice Nelson Martinez Acosta announced orders to arrest four people for murdering Vigoreaux. The stunning news: Echevarría was one of them. Acting on "motives of passion," Martinez charged, Echevarría offered a three-man contract-murder team more than $25,000 to do away with her husband. One of the deal's stipulations, the Secretary said, was that the hired team torture the victim before killing him. The trio brought along a fourth member to act as driver; he agreed to testify for the state in return for immunity from prosecution. Echevarr...
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Today's Eastern League contest is the more meaningful home opener. The Lions (3-3 EIBL, 10-7 overall) are always tough for Harvard, and you may see Kurt Lundgren pitch the kind of ballgame Rollie Acosta did the last time Columbia came north, back in the manual scoreboard days. Lundgren, a sophomore from Nanuet, N.Y., leads the entire 59-team ECAC in strikeouts with 60, and despite a 2-4 record and three straight bad outings, he's a guy capable of getting hot and whiffing 16 like he did while shutting out Dartmouth last year...