Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tiny harbor at Cozumel Island, a fishing community eleven miles off the Yucatan peninsula. The Mexicans immediately granted asylum, and within an hour a committee of Cozumel townfolk was rounding up clothing, food and money. Last week the refugees were negotiating U.S. visas for entry to Miami. Their leader, Rafael Rodríguez Alfonso, 48, longtime member of the Cuban underground, is already talking about another move. "We don't want to sit here and eat ham and eggs," he said. "We want to fight...
...Kelleher decided otherwise. Ralston had been brilliant against Mexico, whipping Rafael Osuna to win for the U.S. after Osuna had beaten McKinley...
...increasingly influential advocate of economic revision is Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, 50, goateed, urbane boss of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform. He is a longtime Communist in a land where, as an experienced Western diplomat puts it, "instinctively the old Communists follow the Moscow line, the new Communists the Peking line." Says Rodríguez: "First we must satisfy our population. If we must reduce the tempo of our industrial development in order to produce consumer goods, then we must...
...evoked comforting shades of Trabert and Don Budge and clearly established him as America's-and perhaps the world's-best tennis amateur. McKinley followed up Wimbledon with a slamming defense of his national clay courts championship, an off-form loss to Mexico's Rafael Osuna in the American Zone semifinal Davis Cup matches, and a quick comeback win over Osuna's partner, Antonio Palafox...
...morning last week, at Caracas' big La Planta jail, a dope suspect named José Rafael Cariola ("El Gorila") jumped a guard and grabbed his rifle. El Gorila and his cronies then stalked one guard after another until by late morning they had rounded up and disarmed 25 of La Planta's guards. By this time close to half of the prison's 800 inmates were on the loose...