Word: carmelo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King of Roxbury, past Candidate for the Boston School Committee, will be speaking at P.B.H. at 8 p.m. tonight. He is the campaign manager for Carmelo Iglesias, a community resident who is challenging the seat of John McCormack, Speaker of the House, from the ninth Congressional district...
...year ago last May, a board of South End clergymen had acted to meet the problem. They hired Carmelo Iglesias, a Puerto Rican co-worker of Saul Alinsky in New Jersey, to organize the Spanish-speaking people of the South End, most of them Puerto Rican, into a force that could resist exploitation by slumlords and businessmen, attract federal help, and catch the wayward eye of City Hall...
...Carmelo Quintero, of the Philippines, stressed that the problem of Vietnam is Red China. The crucial decision for the United States, he explained, was "what it will permit Red China to do it." If the United States and Southeast Asian countries "make an agreement with Russia," he felt that China can be prevented from maintaining the nuclear weapons it will surely otherwise have in the near future...
...began operations in 1956 in the small island town of Mazzarino, site of a 200-year-old Capuchin monastery. One of its first alleged victims was Father Agrippino, whose evening prayers were interrupted one November night by a buckshot blast into the wall beside him. A few days later, Carmelo Lo Bartolo, the monastery gardener, trotted up to the friar, informed him sadly that anonymous scoundrels wanted $320 or they would aim better next time. Father Agrippino settled with the messenger...
Soon the gang turned to better-heeled citizens of their own village. The local pharmacist ignored a series of neatly typed threats until his drugstore burned down; but he paid up ($3,200) when urged by Father Agrippino, accompanied by Father Vittorio and the venerable Father Carmelo (he is now 83). "I am a victim, too, dear doctor," Friar Agrippino declared. "If we don't obey, they'll kill...