Word: latina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cuban news agency Prensa Latina said 40,000 people, many of them foreign vacationers and students, were evacuated yesterday from the Isle of Youth off the southwestern coast as the hurricane passed 200 miles to the south...
With charity in mind, Father Giuseppe Federici, a parish priest in Latina, 37 miles southeast of Rome, opened the doors of his church to about 50 East European refugees camped outside last month. Within three days, however, their numbers had burgeoned to almost 600. It took a month for Italian authorities to find new lodgings for the refugees...
...speak with an Italian accent. Since then, she has made four more movies, including the current Touch and Go and Extreme Prejudice, a Christmas release in which she has her first dramatic role, as a Mexican singer. Alonso, 29, does not worry about being stereotyped as a fiery Latina. With predictable confidence she says, "I can play the roles Meryl Streep plays." Wonder how her Polish and Danish accents are coming along...
...escape the oppression of Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of the day. When Fidel Castro overthrew Batista in 1959, Padilla returned home and put himself at the command of the new regime, which sent him to London and Moscow as a correspondent for Prensa Latina, the government press agency. Gradually he became disenchanted; he saw the future of his country in the repressive atmosphere of the East bloc. Poems such as this reflected his unhappy feelings...
...succeed leftist Michael Manley, a Castro ally, as Prime Minister. Jamaica has now swung so strongly against Cuba that Seaga sent troops to assist in the invasion of Grenada and last week expelled the last semiofficial Cuban on the island, a correspondent for the Cuban news service Prensa Latina. Seaga charged that the correspondent had participated with four Soviet diplomats in a plot to assassinate a Jamaican Foreign Ministry official. The Soviets were also thrown out. Even Manley was less than vehement in opposing the invasion of Grenada. He expressed "profound sharing of concern about the brutality of what...