Word: puerto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chicago now has about 500,000 Spanish-speaking citizens-Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and Cubans-totaling well over 10% of the population. One-third of the Hispanic students need some kind of bilingual education, and the cost of providing it has soared by more than 800% in the past eight years. Illinois law requires that when 20 or more English-deficient students of the same language background are enrolled in the same class, a bilingual program must be provided. Because the Spanish programs have been taught longer, Hispanics do reasonably well. Programs for newer ethnic groups-among them some...
...York City's office of bilingual education: "People who feel good about their past heritage will be more productive citizens." But critics regard bilingual education as expensive, inefficient and above all unAmerican. Says Diane Ravitch of Columbia University's Teachers College: "There are cases of third-generation Puerto Ricans in bilingual classes. That just doesn't make sense...
...today. For one thing, grandfather often never really learned English in the melting-pot school. For another, he could get a job right out of elementary school. The local political struggle over bilingual schools is fiercest in New York too. A black critic recently described the program as "a Puerto Rican employment program...
...bomb" that turned out to be a box containing a bar of soap. Next, another Air Florida 737, headed from Key West to Miami with 74 aboard, was seized by seven passengers who threatened to ignite a bottle of gasoline. Then, a National Airlines DC-10 bound for Puerto Rico was forced to Havana by two Spanish-speaking men who also threatened to set the plane on fire...
...Saturday alone, three planes were forcibly detoured to Cuba: an Eastern Air Lines 727 en route to Orlando; a Republic Air Lines DC-9 headed from Miami to Orlando; and a Delta Air Lines widebody L-1011, flying from Puerto Rico to Los Angeles with 165 aboard. In the first three cases, the passengers were unharmed and the planes were allowed to return to the U.S.; the fate of passengers and planes in the last three was unresolved at week's end. The second seizure provided a clue to the common motivation, after a would-be member...