Word: maria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, Ellin Martens, Peter J. McGullam, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
...killing. Last year British experts conducting DNA tests on the remains of the royal family could only confirm the identities of the Czar, his wife and three of the four daughters. The more recent Russian study concludes that the bones of the Romanov son Alexei and his sister Maria, not Anastasia, were missing...
...DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, Ellin Martens, Peter J. McGullam, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
Farther down the avenue, Baldomero Alvarez Rios, 70, shakes his head. "The problem with young people in Cuba today," he says, "is that they have no idea what it was like before the revolution." His wife Maria Luisa Vina Alonso, 67, nods solemnly. Before 1959 they were members of what Maria calls the petite bourgeoisie, but then Baldomero's revolutionary fervor turned him into a party-line journalist. They worked all over the country and even abroad, spreading Castro's word in receptive capitals like Santiago and Mexico City...
While they now live modestly on Baldomero's 300-peso-a-month pension (just over $3), Maria claims they long ago "learned to scale back for the benefit of the country." Her husband expounds on a widespread theory: young Cubans who never experienced American capitalism are far more eager to put to sea in its pursuit than their parents, who knew capitalism's dark side firsthand. "They see pictures of their relatives in Miami with late-model cars and Seiko watches and Levi's," he says, "and they are tricked into thinking Cuba's problems are internal and salvation lies...