Word: emilios
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some white politicians will try to exploit their divisions by playing off the two groups against each other. Before George Bush selected black Appeals Court Judge Clarence Thomas to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by Thurgood Marshall, the White House let it be known that a Hispanic jurist, Emilio Garza, was also being considered. Some Latinos believe that the information was leaked mainly to lure Hispanics to the Republican banner...
After almost a year on the run with a $400,000 bounty on his head and the largest police dragnet in Colombian history on his tail, Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria surrendered quietly to authorities last week. After handing over his pistol to officials on the outskirts of Medellin, he was whisked by helicopter to a special prison in the Andean foothills. There, overlooking his boyhood hometown of Envigado, the man regarded as Colombia's No. 1 drug thug will serve time on as yet unannounced charges...
Like a brash rookie slugger who can't handle big-league curves, the National sports daily struck out last week. The flashy tabloid, owned by Mexican media mogul Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, never really connected with readers and advertisers, and it lost $100 million in just 17 months of publication. Its problems were compounded by "an economic climate that was getting worse and worse," said editor and publisher Frank Deford. Declaring WE HAD A BALL on its final front page, the first U.S. daily devoted entirely to sports printed its final edition last Thursday...
...immigrants at the frontier. But human-rights activists say San Diego's racial attacks are a microcosm of hate crimes flaring nationally. In one of several attacks involving white youths, Leonard Paul Cuen, 21, was questioned last May and remains a suspect in connection with the death of Emilio Jimenez, 12. The boy was shot as he crossed a field not far from the site of the protest and within range of Cuen's home...
...gone through. Dona Violeta, as she is always called, lost a husband to political violence, and her family was split along political lines: two of her children are ardent Sandinistas and two are just as ardent anti-Sandinistas. Yet through it all, Chamorro has kept her family together. Says Emilio Alvarez, a longtime friend of the Chamorro family's: "If she could reconcile her own family, she could do it for the country as well." Nicaragua remains in severe economic crisis, but so far Chamorro has stymied the Sandinistas with her motherly style. She ended the contra war in less...