Word: arguello
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...There's going to be a lot of celebrating in Miami," predicted a jubilant Roberto Arguello. The president of the Nicaraguan American Bankers Association was exulting last week because the Reagan Administration had just modified its immigration policy to provide asylum for 200,000 Nicaraguan exiles, including 75,000 in South Florida...
...creativity and sleek production values, these ads are often comparable to their English-language counterparts. A Spanish ad for Miller Lite carried on the beer's celebrated Tastes Great- Less Filling theme. But added to the cast were a gaggle of Latin celebrities, including former Boxing Champion Alexis Arguello and retired Boston Red Sox Pitcher Luis Tiant. Miller apparently believes that, in the Hispanic community at least, Tiant's pitch for beer can be as effective as any fastball he threw in Fenway Park...
...surrogate, Kevin Rooney, does the training now, literally by the numbers. "Seven-six- two," he barks from ringside, ordering combinations of punches. An inactive welterweight, symbolically unretired at 30, Rooney has a fighter's mask featuring a wide and prideful nose that once made the short acquaintance of Alexis Arguello. Rooney recalls the day Tyson appeared in the gym at 13. "He looked like a big liar," the trainer says. "He looked...
...ancient Chumash Indians of California, Point Arguello was holy territory, a land where the fog that drifted in from the Pacific mixed with sacred spirits in the skies. The men and women who swarm over that windswept ground today are still concerned with the heavens, but for a different reason: they are turning part of that area northwest of Los Angeles into the space age's newest launching site, the second center of the U.S. shuttle program. The scheduled first flight: October...
...Alvaro Arguello, an adviser to the Nicaraguan Council of State, opened the evening forum with an address on Nicaragua's plans for the electoral process...