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Puerto Ricans are the largest - and most beleaguered - national group among the estimated 2.6 million Hispanics in and near New York City.* They are, of course, not ordinary immigrants but U.S. citizens, as are all 3.3 million inhabitants of the Puerto Rican commonwealth. Despite that advantage, the Puerto Rican experience today is all too often one of blighted hopes. Says Carlos Garcia, 20, a school dropout and part-time carpenter on Manhattan's Lower East Side: "I expected a West Side Story, and never...
News gradually reached Britain that oil was still flowing into Rhodesia, and hopes for the success of sanctions gave way to dismay. As Lord Thomson (then Commonwealth Secretary and chairman of an informal Cabinet committee charged with handling the Rhodesia problem) told the Bingham inquiry, "We came increasingly to the conclusion that we couldn't bring the Rhodesian government to an end by sanctions unless we were prepared to apply them to South Africa. We were under no circumstances willing to do that. The best we could make of a bad job was to be in a position...
...friend, who ten years ago sat side-by-side with Dukakis in the Great and General Court of the Commonwealth and proudly points to himself and Dukakis, and U.S. Rep. Michael J. Harrington '58 (D-Mass.) as members of a group of self-proclaimed "crazies" in the legislature, will never forget the destruction Dukakis wreaked on the state's human services budget in the name of austerity. In the same way, angry taxpayers who voted for Dukakis against then-Gov. Francis W. Sargent because of the Duke's "No New Taxes" pledge on election eve, will never forgive...
...year due to the Watson Rink renovation. Wilson says house athletic secretaries are mulling over a proposal to follow Yale and eliminate dangerous kickoff return plays in House tackle football...Freshman Paula Newnham was one of England's top finishers in the 800-meter run at the recent British Commonwealth games. No wonder coach Pappy Hunt is smiling. Paula is a native of Oxford...Boston media-types are swamping Harvard SID Joe Bertagna with enquiries about freshman quarterback Ron Cuccia. The 5-9, 165-pound hot-shot has quite a rep following him from LA -- 91 TD tosses in high...
Back in Bowling Green, she developed a 101° fever and had to enter a hospital. After her doctor gave her a labor-inducing drug, Pitchford delivered a stillborn fetus-and the knitting needle. The nurse called the coroner, the coroner called the police, and the police called the commonwealth attorney, Morris Lowe...