Word: cordero
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lebron, a Puerto Rican Nationalist, walked rapidly down an aisle in the visitors' gallery. She held a German automatic pistol with both hands, pointed it at Speaker Joe Martin and shouted: "Puerto Rico is not free." Right behind her, two other Nationalists, Rafael Cancel Miranda and Andres Figueroa Cordero, held similar guns and sprayed the House floor with bullets. Martin escaped behind a column, but five Congressmen were wounded. The attacking trio were quickly seized. A fourth member of the plot, Irving Flores Rodriguez, was arrested in a bus terminal...
Last week President Carter granted clemency to the four Puerto Ricans remaining in prison. He had freed the fifth, Cordero, in 1977 because Cordero was dying of cancer. The White House cited "humane considerations" in freeing the terrorists. But the clemency also could help Carter politically among Hispanic voters in both Puerto Rico and the U.S. It was possible, too, that the release might make Fidel Castro more willing to respond to U.S. pleas that three Americans and a Puerto Rican charged with espionage be released from his jails...
There is another track term for a jockey: race rider. The title is used sparingly so that, in a generation of boys, only a handful, the very best, will earn the honor. Arcaro, Atkinson, Longden were race riders. And Shoemaker, Hartack, Cordero, Pincay, Baeza, Turcotte, Velasquez. Now there is Steve Cauthen, only 18 and a race rider. A prodigy at 16, a fearless boy returning from an ugly spill at 17, and less than a month past his 18th birthday, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, the first two classics of the Triple Crown...
...riding more than a little rough. He handled that trial by guile and nerve and then moved on to New York's Aqueduct race track, the Big Apple. He was riding "bugboy light," a 5-lb.. weight allowance granted apprentice jockeys. But on the home turf of Angel Cordero Jr., Ron Turcotte 'and Jorge Velasquez, that was the only allowance...
...times he rode six winners in a nine-race program; four times he won five. In one amazing week he won 23 of the 54 races at New York's Aqueduct Race Track. In 1977 Cauthen's mounts earned more than $6 million in purses, besting Angel Cordero's single-year record by more than $1 million...