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...differences in style reverberated beyond the voting booth. When he conceded defeat, Black Leader Melvin King was the first to acknowledge that the exemplary campaign represented a victory for Raymond Flynn and "a giant step forward" for the city of Boston. The contest between Maurice Ferre, a Puerto Rican, and Suarez, a Cuban, was so fractious that it left Miami more divided than ever...
Rosario Morales, one of the artists featured and a second-generation American says, "I grew up on my parents stories of the beautiful Puerto Rican countryside and used these images for my craft work...
...tour began in two outposts of political stability: Panama and Costa Rica. After giving a sympathetic but noncommittal hearing to Panamanian pleas for economic aid, the commission flew west to Costa Rica's capital, San Jose. Costa Rican officials expressed their concern that their country, the only successful long-lasting democracy in the region, faced a serious threat of subversion from Nicaragua's Sandinista government. Said President Luis Alberto Monge: "Never have our people been more afraid...
Anthony Alvarado, 41, was appointed chancellor of New York City schools last spring after working educational magic as superintendent of East Harlem's District Four, an area where rubble spills out of abandoned buildings and youths loiter in empty lots. When Alvarado, son of Puerto Rican immigrants, was assigned to District Four in 1973, it ranked dead last among the city's 32 districts on reading test scores: only 18.5% of students read at grade level or above. Last year the district ranked 15th in the city, and 48.5% of its students were up to par in reading...
...Aeronica, and Sebastián Muller, an air force deserter. Nicaraguan authorities said that flight plans and other documents found in the wreckage showed that the two aircraft had taken off from a small airport near San José, the capital of Costa Rica. Spokesmen for both the Costa Rican government and Pastora's rebels denied that the planes had come from Costa Rica. A.R.D.E. sources claimed that the flights had originated at a dirt airstrip that the rebels had recently captured in southeastern Nicaragua. Nicaraguan leaders placed the blame for the attack not on A.R.D.E. or Costa Rica...