Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure, all the legal and diplomatic niceties are often observed. The exceptions sometimes occur because the final decision to extradite lies not with the judiciary, but with the executive. Even if the Costa Rican or Bahamian courts had upheld the U.S. application for Vesco, the executive branch of either country could have overruled or simply ignored the judicial extradition finding. The same is true in the U.S. No matter what the courts say, the Secretary of State has the authority to refuse to give up the fugitive...
Throughout the city, his election was greeted with a certain relief. There was no excitement over the election--the real outcome was decided on June 26, when Beame assured his victory by defeating Herman Badilio, a Puerto Rican congressman from the Bronx in the Democratic Party primary runoff. The conflict between a Puerto Rican and a Jew was a bitter one, stirring up charges or racism coming from both camps. By November, most New Yorkers seemed glad that their choice had been made over the summer, when not too many people were watching, and when many voters were away...
Roberto Garcia '75 says he bases his hopes for victory on the votes of Cambridge's fledgling Puerto Rican population; the small size of that group (under 3 per cent of Cambridge's population) and the large number of Puerto Ricans who are not registered to vote reduce Garcia's chances of winning. Garcia emphasizes the need to improve pupil reading scores and bilingual education programs...
...English recollections and associations, olden days in ancient places green and golden, many good hours of secure existence. I think of this also: lead-paint plaster, roach-invasion, rat-infestation of those desperate tenement-quarters on the other side of town in which 10,000 black and Puerto Rican families lead their hungry, hot and agonizing lives. I ask myself: Is it for this, for cruelties like these, for disproportions on this scale, that all of his labors, dreams and hours are contrived, exacted and expended? Is it for this that he has given fifty years to the analysis...
...Perez, as one of Calucci's handful of oddball employees, is the show's second asset. He is a perfect foil for Coco's brand of gentle humor, and steals a star's share of the laughs himself with his ongoing search for "the Puerto Rican dream" -cars, girls, silk socks, "a big house overlooking San Juan harbor and golf every day with Trini Lopez and Cantinflas." It's a nice show...