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Then there were the endless demands for public appearances that "I just couldn't say no to." Among other charitable projects, Clemente last week led Puerto Rico's efforts to aid earthquake victims in Managua, Nicaragua, a city where he had coached and played with Puerto Rican teams during the offseason. Not satisfied with merely lending his name to the mercy mission, Clemente insisted on going along to Managua to see that some 26 tons of food and $150,000 in relief money were properly distributed...
...exacerbated in the 1960s by a mayor who also failed to recognize the growing frustration of the white middle class. John Lindsay reinforced the errors of the poverty program by speaking only about the problems of ghetto residents. His Little City Hall program operated only in black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods. He failed to get the snow removed in white middle class Queens Garbage collection was remarkably poor during the early years of his administration and his response was to appoint a Manhattan liberal to the post of administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Very recently, Lindsay has begun giving...
Another possible contender is Congressman Herman Badillo. Badillo will probably get the support of the New Democratic Coalition, the umbrella group of liberal Democrats in New York City. However, his strength will probably be limited to liberals in Manhattan, blacks and Puerto Ricans. In his race three years ago. Badillo ran well in Jewish districts. However, after the controversy over the Forest Hills housing project, it seems unlikely that Jews will be as willing to vote for a Puerto Rican...
...Vesco company that is trying to buy the Paradise Island gambling complex in the Bahamas from Resorts International. Vesco's IIT fund also lent $2,150,000 to Sociedad Agricola y Industrial San Cristobal, a company that was founded and is still partly owned by Costa Rican President Figueres. Meanwhile Fund of Funds put $60 million into Inter-american Capital, a shell company allegedly controlled by Vesco and formally headed by Alberto Inocente Alvarez, an adviser to Figueres...
...Balart, a former brother-in-law of Cuba's Fidel Castro, but the group now is reportedly trying to back out of the deal. In any case, the group has ties to Vesco; one of its members is Alberto Alvarez, the head of the Costa Rican company that got $60 million from Fund of Funds...