Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...draw the line at some point; the dehumanizing effects of incarceration do not completely erase some sense of what is right and what is wrong, however loose the criteria may be. In no one is Pinero's point better epitomized than in Juan (Jose Perez), a stocky Puerto Rican who stands alone as the only inmate to rise to Short Eye's defense before the other prisoners and to lend him an ear, if admittedly not the most sympathetic one. The fact that Juan and the other prisoners strongly react to Short Eyes dramatizes Pinero's theme, even...
...Puerto Rican familiar with F.A.L.N. tactics is "José," a muscular, mustachioed sometime terrorist who now lives in Colorado and, at 32, describes himself as "retired." As José tells it, the F.A.L.N. is just one element-the noisiest, to be sure-in a rather fluid Puerto Rican terrorist community. Although its size is difficult even to guess at-estimates range between a few dozen members to hundreds-the community is said to be run by separate "central committees" in Puerto Rico and on the U.S. mainland. On the island, says José, terrorist cells tend to have half...
...Puerto Rican terrorism tends to be a family enterprise. Cells often contain cousins, brothers, husbands and wives. José, raised in Manhattan's Spanish Harlem, was deeply influenced by an uncle ("A man I would die for") who was active in the independence movement. After a street-corner childhood and a Navy tour that ended with a jail sentence, José developed a "total lack of respect" for the U.S. and migrated to Puerto Rico...
...terrorists intend to continue their campaign-especially in the U.S. But gradually, the authorities seem to be succeeding in making life more difficult for them. Says José: "Only the old cells here are really safe today. There are even Puerto Rican FBI agents...
...break last year when a Chicago junkie caught selling dynamite led local cops to the apartment he had stolen it from. A search resulted in arrest warrants for Carlos Alberto Torres, 25, his wife Marie Haydee Beltran Torres, 22, and two others. All are the educated children of Puerto Rican immigrants. Carlos Torres, soon to be the newest addition to the FBI's Most Wanted list, attended the University of Illinois; his wife, a high school honors graduate, faces a murder charge: her fingerprint was found on an employment application left at the site of a 1976 bombing that...