Word: cubans
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Marathoners are used to racing against time, each other and themselves, but for the past year Alberto Salazar has been running against an opponent he had never encountered before: failure. In 1982 the Cuban-born Salazar stood alone as the world's best distance runner. He held the American record in the 5,000-and 10,000-meter runs, and had the world's fastest time in the marathon, in which he was undefeated. An Olympic gold medal glistered on the horizon. Then last year, Salazar began to run down and out. His inner fire seemed to have...
Shamie himself has launched an attack on Richardson's recent statements on Central America. Richardson said two weeks ago that he might well have joined the rebellion against" the Salvadoran government before the rebels received Cuban and Soviet Backing...
...battle, fighting on Nicaragua's southern front had seemed little more than the personal crusade of Edén Pastora Gémez, 47. The charismatic "Commander Zero" of the Sandinista revolution, Pastora went into exile in 1981 when he became disillusioned with the growing Soviet and Cuban influence in Nicaragua. Within months the fortunes of ARDE had reached such a low point that his financially strapped army moved into Costa Rican refugee camps. Critics joked that the "zero" in his title stood for the number of battles he had fought. After taking San Juan del Norte, the bearded...
There might seem to be more than enough news in south Florida to occupy any newspaper: a restive black community, an assertively bilingual Cuban population, an infestation of gun-wielding drug dealers, banks that accept large deposits in cash, a police department that seems prone to provoking charges of brutality. The Miami Herald covers its parlous territory as thoroughly and fearlessly as any other city daily, whether in exposing racial discrimination in housing or in probing terrorist acts by anti-Castro Cuban exiles. But it does more. Its reportage of Latin America, aided by bureaus in Rio de Janeiro...
DIED. Frank ("Machito") Grillo, 76, Cuban-born bandleader whose 1940s Afro-Cuban dance bands wedded advanced jazz harmonies, big-band instrumentation and pulsing Latin rhythms, helping create salsa and change the course of modern jazz; of a stroke; in London. After World War II, such bebop jazz artists as Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker adapted his Afro-Cuban sound to small-group jazz and often performed and recorded with Machito...