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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very difficult to obtain a Bible. Once a group of Jamaican churchmen shipped some Bibles to Cuba. These were loaded onto a truck in the port of Havana and taken to a paper factory where they were recycled and used for government publications. Once José Maria Rivero Diaz, a Protestant minister, was surprised by a guard while reading a small Bible which had been smuggled into prison. He was savagely beaten up in his cell by the prison director and other high-ranking officials. After they had left, José Maria's back was just one vast, bloody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Castro's Prisons | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...Republican, is a strong supporter of the President but is known for his independent mind. Boston University President John Silber, whose hawkish and conservative views have stirred controversy on his campus, was born in Texas and taught philosophy there. Others on the all-male panel: Yale Economics Professor Carlos Diaz-Alejandro, a refugee from Castro's Cuba who nonetheless takes a generally liberal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Rolling Out the Big Guns | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

...example," he notes, "kids see that if you work hard you can get what you desire." Menudo's members, mostly sons of the middle class, do seem to work hard, and they get a lot. "I'll give you an idea of what they make," says Diaz. "One kid paid $60,000 in income taxes this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Puerto Rican Pop Music Machine | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...Aleman, eightyish, President of Mexico from 1946 to 1952, who helped build PEMEX, his country's government-owned oil-production monopoly, and later became an energetic booster for Mexican tourism; of a heart attack; in Mexico City. The son of a revolutionary general who helped topple Dictator Porfirio Diaz in 1911, Aleman ran a regime noted for widespread corruption and came away from office a multimillionaire with extensive land holdings in Acapulco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 23, 1983 | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...Allard rf 4 0 0 0 Lubiak rf ss 3 0 1 0 Schindler 3b 3 0 0 0 Rithman ss 2b 3 0 1 0 DiCasare ss 5 0 1 0 Poole c 4 0 0 1 Vierra dh 3 0 0 0 Diaz dh 2 0 0 0 Tantillo ph 1 0 0 0 Hoeh 1b 1 0 0 0 Total 36 5 9 5 Total...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Bauer Launches Two Homers As Crimson Downs MIT, 5-3 | 4/6/1983 | See Source »

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