Word: rican
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Chicago's recent riots in the city's Puerto Rican section resulted in eight persons shot and dozens more injured by rocks and flying glass. No one was more riled than Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko. But as usual, Mike's anger had an unexpected target. Mayor Richard Daley, he wrote, was quite right when he blamed the trouble on "outside influences." One of those out side influences, continued Royko, "was Mayor Daley. He manages to attend many wakes in his part of town. But when the Puerto Ricans invited him to a banquet last week...
...plant in India, and De Kalb (Ill.) Agricultural Association, Inc., is about to expand its Punjab seed farm. American Cyanamid is teaching livestock raising in Thailand, Venezuela and 18 other countries. Caterpillar Tractor this month began a land-development demonstration in which it will clear 250 acres of Costa Rican rain forest, build five miles of access roads for farms big enough (25 acres) to feed more than their own occupants...
Henceforth, Wilson decreed, patrols must be mixed to reflect Chicago's own -diverse ethnic makeup, pairing as best as possible the traditional Irish and Italian cops with Negroes, Puerto Ricans and Latin Americans. The dogs, Wilson indicated with refreshing candor, had been a mistake and in all probability would not be used again to head off riots. City hall, rather belatedly, took note of the tensions along Division Street and promised a conference to discuss Puerto Rican problems...
...airline service between Havana and San Juan, and the U.S. refused to let Fidel fly his athletes in aboard Cuban Ilyushins. Furthermore, warned Washington, any Cuban ship trying to land them in Puerto Rico would be seized on the spot. The Cubans finally made the scene aboard a Puerto Rican tugboat, which ferried them ashore from a Cuban freighter that dropped anchor just outside the three-mile limit. Their reception was warm indeed. Cops swarmed all over them. Shock squads of exiles followed them everywhere, trying to persuade them to defect. Officials turned up with telephones, at the other...
...Cuban spikes two to one. But somehow they all overlooked Juan Pablo Vega Romero, an 18-year-old wrestler, who by week's end was the only Cuban athlete to defect to the West. Juan Pablo had to manage his escape all by himself. Wearing a borrowed Puerto Rican sweater, he sneaked out of the Cuban compound, caught a bus to the nearest Catholic church. There he found a Colombian priest, who took him to a Puerto Rican assemblyman, who passed him on to a U.S. Immigration officer, who after a check with Washington, granted him asylum...