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...26th Marine Amphibious Unit and some 250 Strategic Air Command and Tactical Air Command aircraft will take part in the operation. Among their activities will be amphibious landings and air assault operations on the Caribbean island of Vieques, site of a U.S. naval facility next door to Puerto Rico...
Thank you for your delightful description of George Tucker, the one-man team from Puerto Rico [Feb. 20]. It is a pleasure to read about an amateur athlete at Sarajevo who embodies the correct meaning of the word amateur and who approaches the Olympics with joy rather than grim determination. George Tucker, you are my hero...
...luge, Tucker has our gratitude for carrying Puerto Rico's flag and representing our beautiful island in the Games...
Hart barely has the rudiments of a national organization, as evidenced by his ability to file full slates of delegate candidates in only the District of Columbia, Ohio and Puerto Rico. In Iowa and New Hampshire, Hart practiced "retail politics," tirelessly addressing small audiences. The strategy paid off by winning enough votes in those states to rocket the Senator to national attention, but it will be of no use in the big, delegate-rich states to which the contest is now shifting. "There are more people who vote in my congressional district than vote in the whole of New Hampshire...
...held only five hours after Goodman landed at Andrews, President Reagan praised the young officer's conduct in captivity, saying he "exemplified qualities of leadership and loyalty." Those traits are deeply ingrained. The son of a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, Goodman was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Later he moved to his father's new station at Portsmouth, N.H., where he pushed himself hard to become an A student and football player in high school. He went to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and later attended Navy flight school in Pensacola, Fla. Goodman married Terry...