Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intention of discontinuing their particular form of chauvinist propaganda unless the Harvard community takes a strong stand against categorizing this trash as "humor." If the Lampoon does not have the integrity to recognize what they are doing for what it is, then we must. Afro-American, Puerto Rican, Asian-American, white, men and women, all of us must take a stand: the Lampoon is not funny--it is offensive and bigoted...
...Manhattan's federal courthouse last week, Raisa Nemikin, 27, secretary at the Episcopal Church's national offices, read a statement: "The FBI and U.S. government are attempting to destroy the Hispanic community and the Puerto Rican independence movement. By cooperating, the church has destroyed whatever credibility and trust it had with the oppressed." With that, Nemikin began serving up to 14 months in prison for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury...
...grand jury is investigating the F.A.L.N., a radical Puerto Rican independence group that claims responsibility for 49 U.S. bombings. At the Chicago apartment of the only known F.A.L.N. member, Carlos Alberto Torres, 24, FBI agents last November found 211 sticks of dynamite and 100 lbs. of explosive chemicals. They also discovered correspondence showing that Torres was a member of the Episcopal Church's Commission on Hispanic Affairs...
...kidney was on the way. Rushed by ambulance from the airport, the kidney was bathed in nutrient-rich fluid, then "typed" so that doctors could choose a recipient whose body tissue matched it. Out of the clinic's list of some 200 potential candidates, the doctors picked Puerto Rican-born Jose Serrano, a former construction worker with incurably diseased kidneys who was alive only because he was hooked three times weekly, four hours a day, to a dialysis machine...
...gaudily stained the canvas with memory; the fabric develops what it wit nessed, like a Polaroid photo. They also suggest sideshow tents - bright, tacky signs advertising freaks and marvels. As the British Empire's cartographers once colored half the world red, Ferrer is busy coloring it Puerto Rican, smeared with acid-drop colors, scrawled with looping graffiti. There are few artists of this energy at work today...