Word: cruz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sophisticated paramilitary back-up unit for General Banzar, who took power in La Paz in 1971. Banzar, for his part, kept the French legal authorities at bay through his hand-picked Supreme Court. Barbie and friends could frequently be seen enjoying themselves at the Taverne Bavaria in Santa Cruz, where hundreds of ex-Nazis gathered for reunions, took their uniforms out of mothballs, sang S.S. apthems and even imported prostitutes from Frankfort. The whole operation was financed though drug and arms deals. As an exile, Barbie was at the height of his power and bragged in an interview with...
Other lecturers invited to speak include Derek Bell, former Black professor at the Law School and currently Dean of the University of Oregon Law School: California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso: Linda Greene, a professor at the University of Oregon: Ralph Smith from University of Pennsylvania Law School. Although he has not yet been confirmed as a speaker. Reynoso said that "in general, the American law schools need to recruit more minority professors." "There is a big gap between awareness and getting something done," he added...
...impossible to watch this plot unfold without rooting for the underdog and then remembering that Cruz is as bad as his pursuers, a wildcat crook with delusions of grandeur. Palmer does not blink at Cruz's venomous ethics, but he sinks this character in a landscape of almost unrelieved corruption. He portrays a Miami and environs where the heat is always on: "The sun was a bludgeon hanging over the landscape, poised to smash whatever might attempt to set itself above the level, and nothing larger than a dragonfly dared to venture into its sight; not from lassitude...
...enriching undesirables and demoralizing the forces of civic order. Rawden knows that he and his agents can achieve only hollow victories on the side of law and order: "There's so much stuff coming in that we could arrest just the grandmothers and do just as well." Even Cruz complains about what has happened to the neighborhood: "People used to come down here just to spend their money, but now they're not happy unless they go back with more. They see all this money and they think all they have to do is reach out and take...
...Cruz smiled. 'Let me tell you what we're up against...