Word: cruz
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...harborside hotel rooms, and the hoi polloi jammed the sidewalks. It seemed none of them (save the Queen) could help smiling and clapping or waving their $3 Union Jacks. Hundreds of overnight campers stood on lounge chairs or watched the spectacle on portable TVs. Nora de la Cruz brought her portrait of the Queen trimmed with cotton. Said she: "Too bad we could have no block parties...
...Solitude, a study that described a New World nation improvising a future from indigenous traditions and revolutionary ideals. Paz's dynamic countryman Carlos Fuentes measured the distance between Mexican dream and reality in two impressively executed novels, Where the Air Is Clear and The Death of Artemio Cruz...
...spicy three-course lunch near the Palacio de Bellas Artes and realized that "the amount of money we brought down here for two weeks could last half a year." At the delightful little Hotel Montejo in Mérida, Ted Mills and Jill Heizman of Santa Cruz, Calif., paid only $5.50 a night, about the average price they encountered during a month-long tour of Yucatan. Such bargains are all the more remarkable considering that this is the peak of the Mexican tourist season...
...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...