Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found themselves competing with the Cubans for jobs, housing and other opportunities. Since then, the number of Hispanics has more than tripled, to 825,000; they now outnumber blacks by 450,000. Cubans have become the dominant economic and political force in Miami. The city's first Cuban-born mayor, Xavier Suarez, 39, was elected...
...Mayor Suarez helped establish a committee of five black Overtown residents % and five members of the police force to examine the riot. He has also suggested psychological testing of officers to weed out violence-prone bigots. Lozano, meanwhile, has been relieved of duty, with pay, as police, the state attorney's office and the FBI investigate the shooting...
...JANUARY MAN. Not a conventional whodunit. The mysteries in this spitball comedy are matters of the eccentric heart: How will a New York City fireman (Kevin Kline) win back his ex-girlfriend (Susan Sarandon) or find accommodating love with the mayor's daughter (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) ? John Patrick Shanley, whose luminous script for Moonstruck won an Oscar, scores again here...
...neatly typed letter to Mayor Marta Gomez de Melendez opened with a cordial greeting. But there was no mistaking it for fan mail. The message from the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) informed the mayor of Cojutepeque that she was obstructing El Salvador's revolution and gave her a choice: resign within 72 hours or face "popular justice." Gomez, a normally outspoken member of the right-wing ARENA party, knew exactly what * the last phrase meant. In the past year, eight mayors who ignored similar F.M.L.N. invitations to quit had been "executed," as the rebels call their...
...commemorates Independence Day by exploding 1604 kilos of confiscated drugs over the Washington Monument instead of fireworks. When the smoke clears, it is discovered that President Bush has painted the White House in day-glo paisley, and the Pentagon has given out free chemical weapon souvenirs to tourists. D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is found wandering dazed through the downtown streets, but no one finds that out of the ordinary...