Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although less than 10 per cent of the New York Police are black or Puerto Rican, Fink said, "efforts are being made" to recruit more minority policemen. He cited new training programs and the use of Spanish-speaking recruiters...
...highest literacy rate (85%) and the second highest per capita annual income in Central America ($450 v. an average $300). It also has an enviable record-not quite unbroken but still impressive-of free and democratic elections. Last week, for the fourth time in a row, the Costa Rican electorate peacefully voted out the party in power. As usual, the 2,000-man police force stayed quietly in the background; the most noteworthy figures at polling places belonged to pretty girls in miniskirts who were on hand to assist voters...
Divided Road. A onetime M.I.T. student whose heroes range from Bolivar and Lincoln to Don Quixote, Don Pepe has led his country twice before. In 1948, when the Costa Rican army and Communist-led commandos sought to prevent a newly elected government from assuming power, Don Pepe routed them with a ragtag 700-man army. He took control at the head of a junta, and in the next 18 months he dissolved the army, expanded social-welfare programs, gave women the vote and nationalized the banks. Then, by prior agreement, he stepped aside in favor of the man whose election...
...even more difficult for me to function than Godfrey Cambridge, because if you use him for a commercial, no one can question that you're using a black man for your product. But if you use me, you run the risk of someone thinking, maybe he's Puerto Rican, or maybe he's black, or just what is he? And I think until we get past that whole thing of making a point of saying "Sec? I'm using a black man, I've got my quota," nothing can be done. Because as long as that's a problem, people...
...church has indeed lagged in community service, but a $75,000 mortgage on its new (1966) brick building bites deeply into its budget; besides, Puerto Rican Methodists are typically conservative and pietistic. But some, in the wake of the Lords' takeover, are urging hurry-up consideration of church-run breakfast and day-care projects. "They are willing to have the building used as a service to the community," says one Methodist official, "but as an expression of their own religious faith...