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DIED. NELSON ("THE ADMIRAL") BARRERA, 44, career home-run champion and one of the great figures in Mexican baseball, electrocuted while trying to extricate metal roofing that had become entangled with power lines atop his home; in Campeche, Mexico. In a 26-year career in the Mexican Baseball League, Barrera hit 455 home runs...
...second-in-command. They both started serving their sentences in Connally at roughly the same time. Rodriguez was sentenced to life for hiring a hit man to kill his wife. The son of San Antonio business owners, he chose to plead guilty and not face trial. His lawyer Roy Barrera Sr. told the Dallas Morning News, "He looked at me and said he did it because he considered [murdering his wife] a challenge...
...Rebecca cannot quite bring herself to embrace Aegeon, her long-lost husband, in the form of Dustin Barrera, 10. No matter--the teacher is impressed. Did anyone help her rehearse the lines? he asks. The diminutive citizens of Ephesus erupt in laughter. It's an inside joke: as the teacher well knows, none of his actors come from English-speaking homes...
Very little was done with the set: the same back-drop--a street in Pueblo Cito--persisted throughout the entire play. Setting changes were signaled by the addition of chairs, tables, benches and, in the last scene, the barrera of a bullfighting ring...
...Roberto Barrera is out in the cold. "Todas las cosas en la cocina estan rotas," he says. Everything in the kitchen is broken. Shrouded in blankets, he is sitting on a brick fence across from Van Nuys High School. The school is putting people up, but he will not go indoors. As night falls and the temperature drops to 30 degrees, a rough rule has established itself: Anglos and blacks head for the shelters, while the fields and parks fill with Hispanics, mostly new immigrants, perhaps as many as 20,000. Many of them come from countries with a history...