Word: rico
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cooper Labs, the Palo Alto firm that acquired the Pinkham in 1969, continues to market the compound in Puerto Rico through Cooper Vision Pharmaceuticals...
...immigrant searching for a country, inventing a country I can belong to," she read from one poem, "Stories." Much of Levins-Morales' poetry deals with her feelings of alienation as a woman, a Latino and a Jew. The poems also dealt with her memories of growing up in Puerto Rico...
...defendants are all members of an anti-black, anti-Semitic, anti- Government hate group known variously as the Order, the Silent Brotherhood, the White American Revolutionary Army and the Aryan Resistance Movement. A 93- page indictment charges 23 members with violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a statute the Government has hitherto used against organized crime and terrorists. Ten of the accused had pleaded guilty, and an eleventh changed his plea to guilty last week; at . least eight of these have drawn 20-year prison terms. One of the 23 has never been caught, and another...
...case the Government hopes to make under the RICO Act is that Order members committed their crimes to further their declared violent revolution against what they call the "Zionist-occupied Government" of the U.S. Conviction under the act could bring maximum sentences of 40 years and fines of $50,000 and would allow the Federal Government to confiscate all assets of the organization...
More than 200 FBI agents were involved in raids on the group in Puerto Rico and Boston just before Labor Day. Those captured included Filiberto Inocencio Ojeda-Rios, 52, the suspected mastermind of the Hartford robbery. But the FBI dragnet failed to find Victor Manuel Gerena, 27, a former wrestler accused of leading the robbery. Behind Gerena and the Macheteros, says the FBI, is Fidel Castro. The agency believes that Gerena fled to Cuba with much of the Wells Fargo booty. Ojenda-Rios is also thought to have worked closely with Cuba's intelligence agency: in San Juan, his nickname...