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...Latins will become a majority in Dade, outnumbering non-Latin whites 43% to 42%. The Latin influence is so strong that the mayoral run-off election in Miami last week was a hard-fought battle between two Hispanics, Puerto Rican-born Incumbent Maurice Ferré and Challenger Manolo Reboso, a Cuban-born former city commissioner. Ferré was re-elected for a fifth two-year term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Florida: Trouble in Paradise | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...Reagan era. Houston Controller Kathryn Whitmire, 35, is running against another Democrat, Harris County Sheriff Jack Heard, on a platform of sound fiscal management. In Miami, where an influx of Caribbean refugees and a burgeoning drug trade have caused a paroxysm of violent crime, Cuban-born Challenger Manolo Reboso, 46, is counting on heavy Cuban support to unseat four-term Incumbent Maurice Ferre. Reboso is an outspoken admirer of the late Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza and was a leader of Democrats supporting Reagan. Perhaps the most direct, if quixotic, challenge to Reagan Administration policies came in a nonbinding referendum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Much of a Pattern Either | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...Cubans have their own complaints. They point out that only two Hispanics hold elective offices in Miami: Mayor Maurice Ferré, a Puerto Rican, and City Commissioner Manolo Reboso, a Cuban. Cubans have no representatives in the Florida legislature or in the U.S. Congress. Latins hold only 20% of the city government jobs in Miami and only 4.9% of the top bureaucratic posts. Much of the blame for that rests with the Cubans: only 47% of them are American citizens. Many still see themselves, apparently, as anti-Communist absentees from their island home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MIAMI | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...Watergate Burglar Bernard Barker held a $10,000-a-year CETA job as a sanitation inspector, which he got on the recommendation of Miami City Commissioner Manolo Reboso. CETA also paid half of his tuition as an engineering student at Florida International University. CETA pays Barker's ex-wife Clara $14,000 a year as a clerk-typist and his present wife Maria $12,500 a year as a city sanitation inspector. Says Barker: "I think it is a wonderful program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Psst! Wanna Good Job? | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...Anne Miller; and former Marine Sergeant Carl F. Howell, an assistant to Brennan. Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's longtime personal secretary, remains on Nixon's payroll but has worked mostly in Washington while awaiting retirement on a comfortable federal pension. The Nixons also still have Manolo and Fina Sanchez as personal servants. Manolo, his former White House valet, has taken on a strange chore in the entertainment of male guests. Nixon, who likes off-color stories but hates to tell them, often gives Manolo a sort of cue, like "Manolo, tell him the one about the girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: The Man Who Walks the Beach | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

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