Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police use of the equipment promises to keep the courts busy. Just last month two federal courts clashed on the issue when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago overruled a federal district court and found that video surveillance of four suspected members of the Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN did not violate the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Says University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone: "Technology--bugs, beepers that police attach to cars, parabolic microphones--all of this enables the Government to invade privacy in ways far more extreme than...
...decades bringing Latin American literature north to the U.S. The authors he has translated constitute a pantheon of Hispanic letters: Garcia Márquez (Colombia), Julio Cortázar (Argentina), Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), José Lezama Lima (Cuba), Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rico), Vinicius de Moraes (Brazil...
...Puerto Rican left-hander, who joined the Tigers in a trade with the Philadelphia Phillies just before the 1984 season, had 32 saves in 33 save opportunities, five more saves than he had in a mediocore seven-year career in the National League...
...dean of the Nicaraguan school invited the students for the two-week visit after he spoke to Chicano and Puerto Rican student groups at a Med School conference last spring...
...students hope that their informal visit to the Nicaraguan university can be a springboard for a more formal exchange program for medical students who want to get credit for studies in that country, Schuster said. Similar exchanges are currently run by the Med School with Colombia and Puerto Rico, but plans for a Nicaraguan exchange are at least a year away, the students said...