Word: rican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ended the chaotic hearing for eleven suspected terrorists whose arrest, law-enforcement officials believe, broke the back of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (F.A.L.N.), a small, secretive and extremely violent group on the fringe of the tiny political movement for Puerto Rican independence. Since 1974 the F.A.L.N. has claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings in Chicago, Miami, New York City, Washington and Puerto Rico, killing five people and injuring at least 70 others...
...eight Puerto Rican students (the entire Puerto Rican population at Harvard at that time) walked into the Dean of Admissions Office and successfully demanded the acceptance of more Puerto Rican students along with a corresponding student recruitment program. In 1973 the Chicano recruitment program was established, also as a result of student pressure. However, while Third World student enrollment has generally increased, from less than 5 per cent to 20 per cent of the class of 1984, the population of Native Americans remains less than...
...isolated example of Black overreaction. Other recent examples include the use of capitalization in Russell's editorial (e.g. "two security officers, on Black and one white," "70 people, 60 per cent Black and 40 per cent white," etc.); the demanded creation of ethnic studies departments in Chicano, Boricuan (Puerto Rican), Latin American, Asian American and Native American Studies; and the accusations (which were later dropped) against proposed Afro-Am Professor Lawrence W. Levine...
Politics by terrorism is not confined to Tehran or Bogota. Last week, just one day before Puerto Rico's Democratic primary and three days before Illinois's general primary, two armed bands claiming to belong to the Puerto Rican nationalist F.A.L.N. attacked Carter-Mondale campaign headquarters in Chicago and George Bush's office in New York City, seizing hostages in both places. The F.A.L.N. (for Fuerzas Armadas de Liberatión National) has claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings in major U.S. cities in the past six years and obviously wants to make Puerto Rico...
...sale. Later he approached Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani and Venezuelan President Luis Herrera Campins. Finally the Venezuelan oil company Petroven agreed to sell him nearly 1 million bbl. at the world price of $26 million. Chase Manhattan Bank provided the necessary credit line. A Puerto Rican refinery in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings agreed to refine the oil and transport it in return for a share of the refined products. The state of Massachusetts, using federal fuel-for-the-poor funds, bought the oil and distrib uted it to 7,500 needy households...