Word: puerto
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Though this subculture is predominantly black, many Hispanics and more than a few poor whites belong to the underclass. Among the most glaring subgroups: the Appalachian migrants to dilapidated neighborhoods of some cities, the Chicanos of the Los Angeles slums, the Puerto Ricans of Spanish Harlem. But the Hispanics appear to be moving ahead somewhat faster; 55% of the nation's blacks, v. 49% of the Spanish-speaking minorities, still live in the mostly depressed areas of central cities. The black concentration in the cities seems fated to increase because the birth rate among blacks is 51% higher than among...
Stern and Spain's Interviu also reported that Berg resided in the Canary Islands until recently and appeared every night at a bar in Puerto de la Cruz with a harem of girls looking for pickups. The Stern report said he fled to Libya earlier this year, when an investigating judge summoned him for questioning...
...another night Barbara Walters, ABC's million-dollar anchorwoman, appeared for only a minute or two on-screen at the beginning and end. Next night, in a different hairdo, she was dispatched, like any local girl reporter, to stand before a bombed-out glass front to talk about Puerto Rican terrorists-a story on which ABC breathlessly lavished twice as much tune as the other networks. Such new tactics have generated a flood of newspaper rumors: Is ABC's expensive anchor team of Walters and Harry Reasoner out of favor? About to be fired, about to quit...
...uninhibited courting habits and added a new travail to an already painful summer in Job City. The metropolis, which is still only a few legalistic steps ahead of fiscal insolvency, has suffered through a nightmarish blackout and looting, a bloody bus hijacking and last week two bombings by Puerto Rican independence terrorists. One man was killed and seven people injured, while other bomb scares over two days forced the evacuation of more than 100,000 workers from their buildings...
Many black and Hispanic leaders across the country were dismayed by the rioting. In a typical comment, Carlos Castro, president of Chicago's Puerto Rican United Front, noted that the plunderers were poor and lived in slum housing, though he said of the violence: "You can't justify it." So far, there were no signs of a white backlash, even though many broadcast and newspaper accounts of the power failure emphasized the disorders. Sample headline from the Los Angeles Times: CITY'S PRIDE IN ITSELF GOES DIM IN THE BLACKOUT. Newspapers abroad also focused on the looting. A headline from...