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Margarita Otero-Alvarez, principal of the Longfellow Elementary School in Cambridge says she agrees to some extent. Many teachers are opposed to the measure because they have always planned to have their summers free, she says. "In general, I get a negative response [from the staff]," she says...

Author: By Yin Y. Nawaday, | Title: Sen. Barrett Calls for a Longer School Year | 5/1/1991 | See Source »

...Otero-Alvarez adds that resistance to the measure stems more from lack of information than anything else since the bill is still in its early stages and has yet to be discussed fully be either the State House or Senate...

Author: By Yin Y. Nawaday, | Title: Sen. Barrett Calls for a Longer School Year | 5/1/1991 | See Source »

...Jose Rolando Otero Sabatier, 66, a former tilemaker who was a popular figure in the Cuban labor movement. Otero was arrested in 1964 while plotting a national uprising under the banner of the Cuban National Liberation Army. He kissed miniature Cuban and American flags on his arrival in Miami and looked a bit bewildered as a throng of 250 people cheered him. Said he: "After 20 years, I didn't recognize some of my family. I was surprised to see the grandchildren are bigger than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mixed Bag from Fidel's Jails | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

Until June, the occasional coup attempt originated with two fringe groups: friends of the deposed Lucas Garcia or supporters of the right-wing politician Leonel Sisniega Otero. On June 28, however, senior military commanders met with Rios Montt and demanded that he fire his religious aides, disband an advisory group of young officers and set a date for early elections. The President pacified them by agreeing to fire the junior officers, but the effect was fleeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guatemala: From Preacher to Paratrooper | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...virtually all of the commanders of the country's armed forces gathered at the Guatemala City barracks of the Guardia de Honor, an elite army garrison. There were impassioned arguments for and against ousting Rios Montt, but gradually the plotters won. The decisive factor: the news that Sisniega Otero was once again planning to move against Rios Montt. Explains a Guatemalan journalist: "The ghost of another coup from the extreme right provoked this coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guatemala: From Preacher to Paratrooper | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

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