Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exceptionally well in the Puerto Rican community, very well with Asians and with Chicano groups in California," said Connolly...
...charismatic "Commander Zero" of the Sandinista revolution, Pastora went into exile in 1981 when he became disillusioned with the growing Soviet and Cuban influence in Nicaragua. Within months the fortunes of ARDE had reached such a low point that his financially strapped army moved into Costa Rican refugee camps. Critics joked that the "zero" in his title stood for the number of battles he had fought. After taking San Juan del Norte, the bearded commander could finally add some bite to his bluster. As Pastora told TIME, "San Juan del Norte means more than a beachhead to us. It represents...
...further and cut off all U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan contras, crippling if not ending the guerrilla war they are waging inside Nicaragua. There the fighting intensified last week, with the contras launching coordinated attacks from across the Honduran border in the north and along the swampy Costa Rican border to the south. Fighting was especially fierce at the southern town of San Juan del Norte, where the rebels were hoping to establish a provisional government. Contra commanders told TIME that they received American sea support for their operations at San Juan del Norte, a claim vehemently denied...
...their commanders, the new 82-mm mortars and 50-cal. machine guns that the contras used at San Juan del Norte were delivered ten days earlier by a U.S.-built C-47 transport, which also dropped pallets of food and ammunition under cover of darkness at a Costa Rican site ten miles south of the Nicaraguan border. An A.R.D.E. soldier who is a U.S. citizen, George Davis, of Great Falls, Mont., claimed the pilot was an American. "I'm here to fight Communism, and I guess the pilot is too," said Davis...
...would be foolish to ignore the progress which has been made in attracting minorities to Harvard in the past 20 years Since 1969 College enrollment of Blacks. Chieanos, Puerto Rican, and Native Americans has more than doubled. But Harvard remains disproportionately white and upper middle class--and in the last three years. Black matriculation has significantly decreased. This year's admissions statistics show that the decline will probably continue...