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...held by mutual funds that were managed by I.O.S. Ltd.-the investment complex once controlled by Bernard Cornfeld-and then investing more than $100 million of the proceeds "for their own use and benefit" in corporations they controlled. Some $60 million allegedly went into Inter-American Capital, a Costa Rican-based corporation...
...happens that $60 million is the most common estimate of how much money Vesco has pumped into the Costa Rican economy, most of it through the purchase of government bonds. Vesco will not say what else he owns; he is reputed to have invested heavily in industry, agriculture and real estate and to own the tallest office building in the capital city of San José, along with various restaurants, a coffee plantation and interests in newspapers and radio-TV stations. He is known to have sunk more than $2 million into a holding company called San Crist...
...Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.) responded in a December 10, 1975 letter that while he supported the project, State Department approval was unlikely because of "recent Cuban encouragement of Puerto Rican independence and Cuban intervention in Angola...
...catwalks for free time, swarmed in every direction, some passing through holes gouged between the asphalt walls of the cell blocks. Prisoners carried broken pipes, broomsticks and rocks. A few quickly seized five guards as hostages. The inmates, more than 80% of whom are black or Puerto Rican, rapidly gained control of six of the eight cell blocks, but guards thwarted a takeover of cell block 6 by pitching tear-gas into a 3-ft.-wide hole in a wall, stopping prisoners from a neighboring cell from passing through...
Leslie Keenan, Molly MacLean and Steve Jacobs, as three of Miss Lonelyhearts' correspondents, deliver poignant pleas for help in dramatically lighted and staged sequences. MacLean's portrayal of a Puerto Rican woman plagued by kidney trouble and unwanted pregnancies is one of the highlights of the production...