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Rodoboldo Hernandez is a worker in a Jamaica Plain candle factory who emigrated from Cuba ten years ago. He can not describe his reasons for leaving his native country, saying that he just got the opportunity and left. But he says he feels great about the naturalization ceremony. "I think it's one of the best things that has happened to me. I live here." He adds that as a citizen he will have much better chances of bringing his father and mother, who still live in Cuba, here...
...There is no way for me to outline a timetable on that. I have made it plain that I believe in legitimate negotiations that are aimed at reducing the strategic nuclear weapons in the world. I just think you cannot sit down at the negotiating table and ignore the policies of the Soviet Union, when you're talking disarmament, while they're carrying on as they are in Afghanistan and Africa and so forth...
...Obviously, I don't want any retreat there on the part of our country. I wa.nt to make it plain to both Sadat and Prime Minister Begin that the United States does have an interest in the Middle East. We should not try to dictate a settlement, but be as helpful as we can in arriving at a settlement...
...along, the President-elect had made plain that he wanted to fill his Government with individuals whose portfolios were already stamped with success. Amateurs and the unproven ambitious need not apply, though the proof of prior competence need not be in Government service. That meant, as Reagan knew, a step down for some-and too big a step for a few he wanted. But with the naming of five more Cabinet officers and two principal White House aides last week, Reagan's top offices were filled except for a handful of posts, including Secretary of Education and Special Trade...
...rambling estate in Woodbury. The couple have two grown daughters. Baldrige first began riding at age seven in Nebraska. He took up steer roping in the 1950s, turned professional in the late '60s, and now competes in an average of eight rodeos a year. "I just plain like it," he once said. "I like the timing, the coordination, the partnership with a good horse, the excitement...