Word: rican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There really is no way for Third World students groups on campus to get together to pursue common themes and let the rest of Harvard know what the minority community is about," says Richard Zayas '88, treasuer of the Puerto Rican student group...
Rodrigo Carazo, who headed the Costa Rican government from 1978 to 1982, discussed "The Central American Reality" at a lecture sponsored by the Sociedad Interamericana, a Law School student group that tries to promote understanding among the various American nations...
Stressing the fact that the Contadora negotiations--involving several Latin American countries--have been going on for almost four years, the former Costa Rican official expressed concern that a "military confrontation" involving all of Central America and "possibly the United States" would result if Contadora members did not find a "quick solution to their problems...
...throughout the Caribbean. Just as there are shadings in style -- Haitian merengue, for example, has a heavier African inflection -- there are differences among people whose musical tastes can be as vehement as their politics. "The trouble with Dominicans is they don't know how to dance," grumps a Puerto Rican music-business entrepreneur in New York City. But the numbers are against...
...have increased 50% among Senators over the past five years and 200% among Congressmen. One example: Minnesota Senate Republican David Durenberger and his two sons, 21 and 23, were able to wrap a free and entirely legal six-day Caribbean vacation around the Senator's informal meeting with Puerto Rican health officials and a speech he delivered to Squibb Corp. executives...