Word: rico
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...CAROL RICO Taunton. Mass...
Fajardo. Puerto Rico...
...Casals was not a political artist; he cared little for ideology, and he refused to play in Soviet Russia as well as Fascist Spain. Casals was "fundamentally a Catalonian peasant," a Spanish refugee teaching at the University of Puerto Rico told Bernard Taper of the New Yorker in 1961. Like peasants elsewhere, Casals had a seemingly infinite capacity for endurance, and thinking of the reasons some Vietnamese peasants give for opposing American-backed dictators--those peasants who say they're interested not in politics but in peace, who are motivated not by ideology but just by hatred for torturers...
Among the problems the conference will discuss are the threat of an increasing domination of the Caribbean economy by the United States and by multinational oil cartels and the ecological threat posed by the oil tankers to Puerto Rico's coastal waters and residential areas...
Jose Garcia, professor of Medicine at the University of Puerto Rico, economist Pablo Rivera, and Ramon Arbona, secretary-general of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (U.S. Zone) will be the featured speakers. "Denuncia un Embeleco," a videotaped collection of interviews with fishermen whose jobs would be affected by the superport will be shown...