Word: juan
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...members by at least censuring Powell, if not kicking him out. California Democrat Lionel Van Deerlin, for one, was determined to request the House to ask Powell to "stand aside" pending an investigation. Even Powell's wife seemed to think further investigation was in order. In a San Juan interview, Yvette insisted that she "would like to help" her husband. "But I realize he is a public servant," she added, "and I think it is right for the Congress to investigate if they choose...
...helped by the failure of his estranged Puerto Rican wife Yvette, who is on Powell's payroll as a $20,578-a-year assistant, to show up for a scheduled appearance before the investigating subcommittee. The panel wanted to ask Mrs. Powell, who lives in San Juan, whether she has been violating the law requiring congressional assistants to work either in Washington or in their Congressman's home district. As a result of her failure to appear, Subcommittee Chairman Wayne Hays of Ohio said that he would recommend that she be removed from the congressional payroll, and that...
...offer this Mass to you as a personal gift," said San Juan's Archbishop Luis Aponte Martinez. "What else could I or the church offer you that could be of any value?" In response, two threads of tears appeared on the cheeks of Cellist Pablo Casals, celebrating his 90th birthday. After the service, the maestro returned with his 30-year-old wife Marta and a small group of friends to his seaside villa, where he opened hundreds of gifts and cables from all over the world. Casals' birthday festival in San Juan lasted two days, ending with...
...where he spent his years staging bitter protests against the Communists, particularly during the 1956 Hungarian uprising and during Nikita Khrushchev's 1960 U.S. visit, when he led 2,000 marchers with placards reading: "Murderers belong in Sing Sing"; of a heart attack; in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
...important accomplishment of the new constitution, however, is that it provides an answer for the first time to the question that has plagued Spain ever since the civil war: What will happen when Franco dies? As before, his regime will have to choose between a king (most probably Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, 53, the liberal-minded pretender to the Spanish throne) and a regent (favored by antimonarchists as a device to turn Spain into a republic). But the new constitution provides some guarantee that the death of Franco, who until now has been virtually the sole...