Word: paras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...named by analogy to Hitler's die-hard supporters in 1945, oppose any reform and hope to preserve the Franco state intact as long as possible, including its secret police and political arrests. These men represent Franco's family, civil war generals, high state officials, and a host of para-military groups like the Falange and the Guerillas of Christ the King. The bunker deeply distrusts Juan Carlos for his democratic leanings. It hopes to restrict his power when he officially becomes king by forcing him to retain the present Prime Minister, Carlos Arias Navarro, a moderate Francoist whose half...
...Paris, it's New Jimmy's and Le Regine. In Monte Carlo, the snob spots for drinking and dancing are the Maona (Tahitian), Para-dize (Brazilian) and New Jimmyz (art deco). The woman who manages all this, sometime Singer Regine (nee Zylberberg), 45, now plans new discothèques in Rio and Manhattan. "Life begins with the first cocktail," says the lady who introduced le twist to Paris. "She only sleeps three hours a night," adds her husband and former secretary, Roger Choukroun. The cabaret queen is also branching out into fashion design. Her first collection, introduced...
...Castro activities to convince the Cubans to grant him a visa. The CIA plan was for Oswald to be apprehended with the visa in his pocket, tying Castro to the assassination and thus ensuring a full-scale invasion of Cuba. The authors trace the Oswald double to a para-military band of right-wing Cubans. Most interestingly, the face of the Oswald tramp closely matches the drawing of Martin Luther King's assassin released by the FBI before they found James Earl Ray. Ray himself claims he was a pasty for a Cuban named Raoul...
...neat, well-tended elementary school in the predominantly black and Puerto Rican South Bronx, Principal Larcelia Kebe worries about managing a full complement of 825 students with fewer teachers this year; 15 of her 35 teachers have been laid off or transferred, as have 13 of her 17 para-professionals (trainees who work with regular instructors at half pay; many study for their own teacher's certificates). Security protection has been reduced from three to two hours a day, and with less supervision, young pupils are more apt to wander away from school during lunch and not come back...
...that impose racial or ethnic quotas. "Quotas are authoritarian and essentially discriminatory," he says. "Why not just confer an M.A. at birth on blacks and minorities?" On the other hand, he takes pride in the some 10,000 blacks and Hispanics whom he has brought into the U.F.T. as para-professionals with the opportunity of eventually becoming full-fledged teachers...