Word: rican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy to locate the dead: as soon as the rains stopped, the Puerto Rican sun quickly baked the gooey clay rock-hard. By week's end only 38 bodies had been recovered. But Ponce Mayor Jose Dapena predicted that the death toll could eventually rise to 500. That would rank not only as Puerto Rico's worst single disaster in this century but as the most destructive landslide in U.S. history...
...request of Puerto Rican Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, a Ponce native, President Reagan declared Ponce, Coamo, Santa Isabel and the Atlantic Coast town of Toa Baja disaster zones, making the U.S. commonwealth island eligible for federal relief funds. Hernandez Colon also joined some 3,000 mourners at Ponce's sports coliseum in a memorial service for 23 of the dead. The Governor has vowed to continue the search for victims "as long as humanly possible," while plans are under discussion to turn the Mameyes ravine into a memorial park. For many residents of the devastated barrio, the site is likely...
Aurora Levins-Morales, a Puerto Rican activist and poet, read from her works about sexual and racial alienation last night at Radcliffe's Agassiz House...
...Continental Hotel, on the Reforma, Eva Hernandez, a Costa Rican tourist, was staying in Room 930. "It started to shake," she said. "We ran out of the room. We ran down the stairs and we ran and ran. The building was falling all around us. Rocks were falling on us. My roommate fell and her pajamas were torn off, but we kept on running. Now there is nothing there, where we were. Nothing." The hotel's top two floors had collapsed, spewing debris onto the boulevard below...
...activist insists adamantly that protest is not the way to go. "People who organize protests have really good intentions, but they haven't seen that many results, at least not at Harvard," asserts Remigio Cruz '86, who spends several afternoons a week and lives summers in a predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood in Boston's South...