Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former Puerto Rican terrorist talks...
Once again, those Puerto Rican bombs. Three exploded in New York City one day last week, touching off fires in two stores and terrifying midday strollers outside Manhattan's main library. There were no casualties, but a letter calling for a "war of nerves" against "Yanki-imperialism" that was found in a phone booth made it clear that the lack of bloodshed was only luck: the Puerto Rican terrorists who call themselves the F.A.L.N. had struck again...
...three blasts-a fourth explosive device failed to go off-brought to 65 the total of known bombings since 1974 by the Armed Forces of National Liberation of Puerto Rico in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Newark, as well as in New York. The worst outrage: a 1975 lunchtime bombing of Manhattan's Fraunces Tavern that left four dead. Searching for reasons why the F.A.L.N. bombers have been able to persist, TIME Correspondent James Willwerth interviewed a former terrorist from a similar Puerto Rican independence group. Willwerth's report...
...same beleaguered U.C.-Davis medical school is already reeling from a suit filed by Allan Bakke, a white who claimed he was excluded because the university reserved 16 of 100 places in its entering class for blacks, Chicanos, American Indians, Puerto Ricans and Asians...
Wiesenthal claims to have pieced together new and fuller details about Mengele's life in Paraguay. The old doctor spends much of his time in a military zone that is off limits to all outsiders. Besides his villa in San Antonio, Mengele has a home in Puerto Stroessner, a town situated at the confluence of the Parana and Iguagu rivers...