Word: cruz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...followed the doorman's directions down a maze of passageways to the basement waiting room, another of the evening's aspiring showstoppers fell in behind. It would have been hard to find two folks more different. Where Johnson looked like a jockey in an oversize sweater, New Arrival Steve Cruz was packed into a double-breasted, knife-sharp example of the dry cleaner's art. Their attitudes too were poles apart...
...Whatever happens tonight, that's fine with me," Cruz remarked while they were waiting. "Three hundred and sixty-five days of the year I'm plain old Steve Cruz, the guy who drives his truck up to construction sites. But tonight I'm going to be the One and Only Steve Cruz, Live at the Apollo. Winning would be nice, but being out there and singing, that's good enough...
Glad-handing Steve Cruz had a better night. He tied for third place and won an invitation to return for the monthly finals. "It really was my night. I sang at the Apollo, and they liked me," Cruz said over a Dixie Cup toast. "Tonight I really was the One and Only Steve Cruz. Tremendous...
...little-known leftist group called the Mardoqueo Cruz Urban Guerrilla Commandos claimed responsibility. It is an offshoot of one of five guerrilla armies in the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, which has been fighting the U.S.-backed government for the past eight years...
...legitimate (polling in Nicaragua is prohibited), we can only judge it on its past actions. Would a truly legitimate government need to censor the press, force all opposition candidates out of its "free" presidential elections, and murder, torture, and jail political dissenters? Opposition leaders, such as Edgar Chamorro, Arturo Cruz, Maria Aristides Sanchez, and Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, are surely much more legitimate representatives of the Nicaraguan people than Ortega and the Sandinistas...