Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four planned to escape to the wilds of Canada after the robbery and live off the loot for the rest of their lives. It was only when the scheme went awry, apparently, that Tuller thought of hijacking a plane. Since he had been reading Che Guevara and admired the Cuban Revolution, Havana seemed a logical destination. Once aboard the hijacked jet, he harangued the passengers with his political notions. "This fascist Government has got to fall!" he ranted. "These fascists have done nothing but keep the little man down. The only way you can be free is with this...
...Bryant, retired kennel keeper of the White House, reports that presidential pups have relieved themselves on carpets, Calder sculptures and on one memorable occasion, Jacqueline Kennedy. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Weimaraner infuriated her short-tempered master by chasing his golf balls. John F. Kennedy soothed himself during the Cuban missile crisis by taking time out to pet his daughter Caroline's Welsh terrier Charlie. Dog-lovingest President: Lyndon B. Johnson, who allowed one of his dogs to sleep in his bed and adored a white collie named Blanco, despite the fact that he was so vicious...
...That more centers be set up and staffed with bilingual instructors to teach Cuban, Mexican and Puerto Rican children social studies, science and math in their native tongue. There are 42 such centers now, but they reach only about 5,000 of the estimated 100,000 Spanish-speaking children in Illinois. Formerly, the chief goal of Illinois' public schools in educating such youngsters was to teach them English, despite a dropout rate that exceeded 70% in Chicago alone...
...sunshine, Mr. Brundage? In Munich, the Yugoslav water-polo team lost a close contest to the Soviet Union. Displeased by defeat, the Yugoslav sportsmen spat on the Cuban referee and beat the daylights out of his bewildered brother. Pakistan, perennial power in field hockey, was upset in the Olympic final by West Germany, 1-0. Pakistani fans nearly mobbed the referees, the players ridiculed the awards ceremony and roughed up a doctor at the doping tests, and eleven members of the team were forever banned from Olympic competition. Before the Games began, Black African nations, threatening a boycott, browbeat...
...Conducting his own inquiry, Florida State Attorney Richard Gerstein learned that three men, two of them identified as among those arrested in the Watergate incident, had taken two rolls of 35-mm. film to be developed at a camera store in Miami's Cuban section just seven days before the break-in at the Democratic headquarters. According to the store owner's son, Michael Richardson, many of the photographs were of documents bearing the letterhead of the Democratic National Committee. Some appeared to be personal correspondence between its former chairman, Lawrence O'Brien, and other top Democratic...