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...Menendez case wraps up and heads for its juries...
Until recently, American history texts were resolutely Anglocentric, beginning the immigration story with the first successful English settlements -- at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 and Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, in 1620. The British, in fact, were latecomers. In 1565 a convicted Spanish smuggler named Pedro Menendez de Aviles, leading a ragtag army of perhaps 1,500 that included blacksmiths and brewers as well as foot soldiers, built the first permanent European settlement on American soil at St. Augustine, Florida. (The ruins of Menendez's first fort were discovered only last summer.) Thirty-three years later, Juan de Onate established a colonial capital...
...Kitty Menendez:...Deeply unhappy in her marriage, she is an alcoholic who , periodically and desperately makes futile attempts to live up to her husband's standards. Aware that her marriage is a sham, she herself is the victim of Jose's cruelty...
...Lyle Menendez:...A complicated, brilliant, arrogant boy, he has been seriously damaged by his impossible-to-please, unbearably domineering father...Cold, calculating, with a bitter, biting humor, Lyle both loathes and admires his father and feels nothing but contempt for his beaten-down mother...
...Erik Menendez:...((A)) softer, warmer human being ((than Lyle)), still capable of feeling pity and love for his mother, as well as being able to share a few lighthearted moments with his father, who makes his life generally miserable...