Word: puerto
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Parents of about 500 freshmen will come from as far away as California, Puerto Rico, England, Belgium, and the Ivory Coast to visit their sons and daughters. About 70 parents more than last year's total are expected to arrive today, said Eleanor C. Marshall, assistant to the director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Parents Association (HRPA), which plans the weekend...
...same time, the camp officials were choosing players--based on individual competition and tryouts--for the National Junior Development Team bound for later competition with squads from Puerto Rico, Mexico and Canada...
...killer rains claimed lives elsewhere in Puerto Rico's south, which bore the brunt of their fury. Flooding creeks and a collapsed wall caused 13 deaths in the El Tuque section of Ponce, and near...
...town of Coamo, at least three automobiles plunged from a fallen bridge, killing eight. Nineteen bodies were pulled from the swollen Paso Seco River near the town of Santa Isabel, where another bridge gave way at the height of the deluge. Ironically, shortly after the weather front left Puerto Rico and gained sufficient new force to be classified as a tropical storm, Isabel was the name routinely assigned to it by the World Meteorological Organization. Isabel came close to gaining hurricane status as it approached the Florida coastline, but then rapidly dwindled in force...
...request of Puerto Rican Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, a Ponce native, President Reagan declared Ponce, Coamo, Santa Isabel and the Atlantic Coast town of Toa Baja disaster zones, making the U.S. commonwealth island eligible for federal relief funds. Hernandez Colon also joined some 3,000 mourners at Ponce's sports coliseum in a memorial service for 23 of the dead. The Governor has vowed to continue the search for victims "as long as humanly possible," while plans are under discussion to turn the Mameyes ravine into a memorial park. For many residents of the devastated barrio, the site is likely...