Word: maceo
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...Maceo Parker with Roots Revisited at Nightstage...
...filed into place on the carved wooden balconies of the venerable city hall. Soaked to the skin, the audience heard Army Chief Raúl Castro declare all of Santiago a "hero of the republic" and bestow upon the city Cuba's highest honor, the Order of Antonio Maceo. Then all eyes shifted to the central balcony, where President Fidel Castro, 56, stood alone, his head bowed. Stepping to the lectern, Castro used words he had first uttered to a frenzied and much larger crowd from the same spot exactly 25 years earlier, announcing the overthrow of Dictator Fulgencio...
...signs of Cuban influence are everywhere. Miami's Little Havana, the epicenter of the Cuban community that stretches along Eighth Street (or Calle Ocho,) is a foreign land. In Antonio Maceo Park (named for a black Cuban patriot), old Cubans pass the time playing dominoes or reading Spanish-language newspapers that carry headlines like THE PLAN TO INVADE CUBA IS READY. The Miami Herald, the city's largest newspaper, is printed daily in Spanish as El Herald. Its circulation: 421,236 in English; 60,000 in Spanish. Three television stations and seven radio stations in South Florida broadcast Spanish programs...
...representative from that community, said that "one parent is enough." Mr. Harper refused an offer from a Boston SWP former candidate for statewide office to "work out a compromise proposal" with the proposal for "just three slogans and a march" submitted by YSA members and NSCAR coordinators Maceo Dixon and Paul Mailhot and coordinators Ray Sherbil of BU and Marcia Coodling of Northeastern U., and submitted his own proposal with Mr. Sherbil. Mr. Harper does not accept the notion forwarded by a member of the YSA national executive board (council or whatever) that the "NAACP has finally decided...
...coalition, about 300 strong, seizes the microphones for 25 minutes, and then leaves the auditorium in protest against the SWP-YSA influence on the conference. "Don't play us as fools...we know what you're trying to do to us," they tell the conference. "Get off the bus, Maceo. You've got to come home," they shout at Dixon. However, the conference is glad to get rid of people who, as a tall skinny black wearing a huge leather hat says, "won't discuss constructive programs." But the black third world coalition charges that they were intentionally left...