Word: diaz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Isidoro Diaz, also known as Tito Diaz, allegedly robbed three people as they walked down Spring Street on a Saturday evening last month...
...Diaz, who is 19 years old and whose last known address was in Cambridge, is said to have confronted the trio along with five accomplices and demanded their money. After the people surrendered their money, Diaz opened fire with a shotgun, wounding one victim in the shoulder and the other in the buttocks...
...this trip there are mainly Dominicans, but also Ecuadorans, Haitians and a Cuban. Manuel Diaz, a Colombian traveling with his wife, paid $8,000 for the trip. "I have a job waiting for me at a grocery store on Northern Boulevard, Queens," he says proudly. Mar?a Rodriguez, a Cuban, says she simply could not earn enough in her native land. "Look at my hands," she says, showing fingers and palms callused from years of manual labor. "I am still young. But there is no way to survive where I come from. I left my children with relatives...
...Cold War lingo. "Whether Castro leaves Cuba in a vertical or horizontal position is up to him and the Cuban people. But he must -- and will -- leave Cuba."TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothreports that Helms gets many of his ideas about how to handle Cuba from Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), a Cuban emigre who happens to be a distant cousin, and sworn enemy, of Fidel. Castro is, of course, used to such threats from the north. In an interview withTIME Managing Editor James R. Gainesand other editors that took place before Helms made his comment, the Cuban...
...cops to alert residents when a high-risk sex offender moves into their neighborhood. Attorney General Janet Reno cited sex offender recidivism rates as high as 75 percent as she announced assistance for New Jersey in battling three challenges to the new law. The first challenger, convicted rapist Carlos Diaz, claims the law violates his constitutional rights to privacy and due process. Diaz defense attorney Ronald Chen told TIME Daily that federal intervention would have little affect on his case...