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When Puerto Rican police gunned down two radical supporters of independence in 1978, the executions kicked off a scandal that helped bring down a Governor and resulted in the convictions of ten policemen for perjury. Last week in San Juan, U.S. District Court Judge Carmen C. Cerezo sentenced former Police Agent Luis Reveron Martinez to the maximum 25 years. A witness has accused Reveron Martinez of killing one of the independentistas with a twelve- gauge shotgun as the victim knelt before him. Earlier three other policemen had each received 20-to 30-year prison sentences...
Acting on a tip from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, 40 Costa Rican security agents swooped down last week on a luxurious ranch-style home in the capital of San Jose. Inside they found $40,000 in cash, $150,000 in traveler's checks and a gold-plated pistol. They also discovered Sara Cosio Martinez, the 17-year-old niece of a Mexican politician, who had apparently been kidnaped earlier this month. Best of all, the police arrested Mexican Drug King Rafael Caro Quintero, 32, also known as El Chapo (Shorty). Said U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese: "We're dealing...
...intermittently, to play the American Tony, Carreras lovingly spins out his phrases, making an impassioned romantic aria out of Maria and lending Puccinian fervor to the love duet One Hand, One Heart. Te Kanawa's pure, gleaming voice and British inflection seem a bit too uptown for a Puerto Rican girl from New York City's tough West Side, but she floats a golden high pianissimo at the end of Tonight effortlessly. Troyanos, who was born in the neighborhood where the musical is set (and where Lincoln Center now stands), crackles uninhibitedly in the rhythmically ) infectious immigration anthem America...
Harassment claims have resurfaced this semester. In February Currier House Junior Remigie Cruz '86 filed his second formal harassment complaint against the department. He argued that two officers, who said they stopped Cruz on suspicion of wearing illegal sand-filled gloves, had halted him because he was Puerto Rican. Cruz said this was the sixth time Harvard police had stopped him without adequate reason. A week later minority student Juan Gutierrez filed a harassment complaint claiming he had been subjected to unnecessary harassment by a Harvard guard while night-guarding at Currier House during the fall semester...
...equipment promises to keep the courts busy. Just last month two federal courts clashed on the issue when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago overruled a federal district court and found that video surveillance of four suspected members of the Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN did not violate the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Says University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone: "Technology--bugs, beepers that police attach to cars, parabolic microphones--all of this enables the Government to invade privacy in ways far more extreme than one could possibly have...