Word: corneres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Puerto Rican terrorism tends to be a family enterprise. Cells often contain cousins, brothers, husbands and wives. José, raised in Manhattan's Spanish Harlem, was deeply influenced by an uncle ("A man I would die for") who was active in the independence movement. After a street-corner childhood and a Navy tour that ended with a jail sentence, José developed a "total lack of respect" for the U.S. and migrated to Puerto Rico...
...double-barreled concert was to have been the feature attraction of a daylong festival celebrating the 28th anniversary of East Germany's birth as a Communist state. In one corner of East Berlin's huge Alexanderplatz, a Western-style rock group, Express Berlin, was performing before several hundred rapt young people. At the opposite end of the square, a Russian military band tootling patriotic marches competed unsuccessfully for the crowd's attention. Suddenly, the cacophony erupted into violence...
...self-styled "street corner scholar" has encountered major difficulties in obtaining recognition of the validity of his methods from the established medical community, and all indications suggest he will continue to run up against similar reactions in the future. Humes does not possess a medical degree, and documentation on the ultimate success of his treated patients is lacking. Humes has not operated one of his "crash pad clinics" for the detoxification of addicts for over a year, choosing in recent months to concentrate on the anxiety afflictions of elderly Cambridge residents. And his current legal difficulties do not promise...
Outside again, a man looms out from a corner like Harry Lyme. "Hi," he says. "Hello," you mumble nervously. But what the hell, surely the good guys do something more than drink coffee, what could possibly happen on the corner outside the police station anyway, with your down jacket and notepad you look like a stake-out so he's probably scared out of his mind--but why would he be talking to you then instead of running as if all Beezlebub's minions were after...
...Crimson added a third tally when Sally Kingsberg chased a Jenny White pass deep into the corner, caught the Tufts goalie coming out to cut off the angle, and beat her to the near side with a nifty leftfooted shot...