Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miami, Carlos Arboleya, president of the area's Barnett Banks (assets: $315 million), surveys the local Cuban-American community and confidently declares: "History will write Miami's future in Spanish and English...
...Americans are settling in places like Chicago, Boston and even Greenwich, Conn, (some 10,000 in a town of 63,000). The problems, and promise, of the Hispanic-American experience in the U.S. may be best illustrated, however, by what is happening in three other cities: metropolitan Miami, whose Cuban population (430,000) is exceeded only by Havana's; metropolitan Los Angeles, whose 1.6 million Hispanic population, which is overwhelmingly chicano, makes it the world's second largest Mexican agglomeration after Mexico City; and New York, which surpasses San Juan in Puerto Rican population (1.3 million). There is a fourth...
...fresh pasteles (pastry) and café cubano waft from a hundred neighborhood coffee stands. Youngsters are everywhere, downing batidos (exotic fruit milkshakes) at open-air counters or putting away Grandes Macs at the McDonald's eatery on Flagler Street. This is Little Havana, a 5-sq.-mi. Cuban enclave in the middle of Miami...
...Last Supper. Tomas Gutierrez Alea, the Cuban director whose Memories of Underdevelopment was popular in this country, directed this 1976 tale of a slaveowner overcome with "religious humility" who invites 12 black slaves to dinner on Holy Thursday, and casts himself in the role of Christ. Critics have labeled the film a bitter satire, which turns violent and moralistic when the slaves disobey their overseer the next day, trusting in the "magnanimity" of the Count to defend them. He doesn't. This is the New England premiere, and is highly recommended...
...Rhodesia. But you can help us shorten the war." With those words, Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere urged the U.S. and Britain to renew and strengthen their efforts to bring peace to Rhodesia. The call came against a backdrop of increasingly violent warfare in that embattled country, where Cuban-trained black nationalist guerrillas are now using Soviet-supplied mortars, armor-piercing machine guns and heat-seeking antiaircraft missiles to battle Rhodesian forces equipped with helicopters, heavy artillery and Belgian automatic weapons. More than 1,000 soldiers and civilians died in September's fighting, about the same number...