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...Puerto Rican Winter Olympic team, first in the annals of the country and last to the bottom of the luge run, consists of one well-rounded American named George Tucker, who is particularly well rounded in the seat, where the number of mended holes in his suit suggests that Tucker occasionally arrives at the finish line without his sled...
...When you crash, it takes a little longer to get back," he apologizes. "You have to retrieve your sled." In the '60s, before he weighed 210 lbs., when he was a pretty handy 6-ft. 1-in. basketball player, Tucker thought of trying out for the Puerto Rican Olympic basketball team. But dreams, like pounds, like years, slip by faster than luge racers flip from their sleds. Finally last year, he says, "I got the name of the president of the Puerto Rican Olympic Committee out of the New York Times. They sent me a beret. The rest...
...course, is hardly unknown in the U.S. A bomb left in a corridor outside the Senate chamber caused some $250,000 damage to the Capitol last month, and a group calling itself the Armed Resistance Unit claimed it had done the deed to protest U.S. "imperialism" abroad. Various Puerto Rican independence groups have touched off explosions in New York City, including four against federal and local government buildings last New Year's Eve and four others on Wall Street in March...
...backed Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.) announced last week that it had launched a new "general offensive" against the Sandinista government. Meanwhile, a Nicaraguan radio station claimed that several hundred contras who support former Sandinista Leader Edén Pastora Gómez were massing on the Costa Rican border. The rebels said they were fighting in ten separate locations in southern Nicaragua, though the Sandinistas acknowledged fighting in only one. The rebel announcement came as something of an embarrassment to Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge. Even as the attacks were under way, Monge had been reaffirming that Costa Rica...
...there recruiting for Harvard, and I answered that there are some Latin American professors, but no Mexican-American or Puerto Rican faculty and added that there are some Black professors. But the question disarmed me; I didn't expect such perception and bluntness from a high school student. Later I realized how inadequate my response had been...