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...South Carolina, as Secretary of Education, instead of Johnnetta Cole (or so say the leakers). That indicates the President-elect is shying away from people who might face tough confirmation hearings. Conservatives have tried to link Cole, head of Atlanta's Spelman College, to pro-Palestinian and pro-Cuban groups. Retiring Colorado Senator Timothy Wirth is said to have lost his chance to be Secretary of Energy because confirmation questioners might challenge his associations with savings and loans in his state...
...Cuban-American second-year student said, "Noone's going to do anything. We can take all thedamn surveys we want, but what is that going todo...
...years, standardized test-takers have been forced to choose among Hispanic, Latino, Puerto Rican, Chicano, Cuban, South American or various combinations of similar rubrics. The U.S. Census Bureau officially used "Hispanic" as a category in 1980. If the bureau had called the group "Latinos," would it really have ramifications for the community's political status...
WITH THE FALL OF COMMUNISM, DOUBLE AGENTS seem more likely to inhabit novels than real life these days. But Cuban exile Francisco Avila Azcuy claims he was just that -- a double agent spying on exile commandos in Miami for Fidel Castro while helping the FBI unravel Cuba's espionage network in the U.S. Not uncoincidentally, a Cuban diplomat at the U.N. was expelled after the Spanish- language Miami TV station WSCV secretly videotaped the official discussing a prospective exile raid on Cuba with Avila...
...have donated $1.1 million in campaign contributions; Mas himself is the biggest Hispanic contributor nationwide. In this election year, more than $200,000 has gone to lobbying efforts and campaign contributions for sympathetic Congressmen -- mostly Democrats -- including $26,750 to New Jersey Congressman Robert Torricelli, principal sponsor of the Cuban Democracy Act. But President Bush has received the bulk of the foundation's presidential contribution: $57,000, vs. $1,750 for Clinton...