Word: carmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Puerto Rican police gunned down two radical supporters of independence in 1978, the executions kicked off a scandal that helped bring down a Governor and resulted in the convictions of ten policemen for perjury. Last week in San Juan, U.S. District Court Judge Carmen C. Cerezo sentenced former Police Agent Luis Reveron Martinez to the maximum 25 years. A witness has accused Reveron Martinez of killing one of the independentistas with a twelve- gauge shotgun as the victim knelt before him. Earlier three other policemen had each received 20-to 30-year prison sentences...
This United Nations-like aggregation joins forces to make "Samba for Carmen" the highlight of an album that will further establish Paquito on the American jazz scene...
Although Paquito does some more Latin-type tunes, including Dizzy Gillespie's "Manteca", the best--and best-performed--Latin tune on the album is "Samba for Carmen", which Paquito dedicated to jazz singer Carmen McRae, Drummer Portinho, late of Tania Maria, drives the whole thing as if he were still in the Rio de Janeiro samba school, Padre Miguel, and fellow Brazilian Claudio Roditi, who has the unenviable position of following Paquito in order of solos, still acquits himself quite well on trumpet...
...Elis have moved up in the league primarily because they boast the best run defense in the league, a unit spearheaded by All-Ivy middle guard John Zanieski--the leading Yale tackler in 1983 and '84--and a superb pair of linebackers in Carmen Ilacqua and Ardel McKenna...
...company's home. New York City Mayor Edward Koch increased the city's support to $1.3 million annually. She combined the two seasons into one that runs from July through mid-November. Out of economic necessity, new productions are more innovative than lavish: Frank Corsaro's Carmen, set during the Spanish Civil War, cost only...