Word: carmencita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Juan and Carmencita Rodriguez, who left Cuba in 1969, are reasonably typical. They settled in New Jersey, where Carmencita had a sister. Juan, 49, a former storekeeper, got a job in an embroidery shop by saying that he could cut lace left-handed. In fact he is right-handed and had never cut lace. Carmencita, 47, a former teacher, worked in a handbag factory and cut insignia for uniforms on a piecework basis at home. "See this finger, see the callus I still have on it," she says proudly. The couple saved enough money to open two gift shops...
...still rinding survivors in the wreckage. On Friday three people, including a six-month-old infant in Lioni, were rescued after more than five days of entrapment. Earlier, workers sifting through the ruined hospital at Sant' Angelo de' Lombardi found three babies still alive. Among them was Carmencita Antoniello, born prematurely just five days before the quake. She had been trapped in her incubator. In Balvano, 90-year-old Donata Zarillo was rescued after spending 30 hours trapped in the wreckage of her kitchen. "We heard her beating a piece of wood against the wall," explained Fireman Giancarlo...