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...refugees from Fidel Castro's dictatorship that Anglos sometimes call it "North Cuba." But not until last week was its first Cuban-born mayor sworn in. Xavier Suarez, 36, survived a preliminary election on Nov. 5, in which six-term Mayor Maurice Ferre, who was born in Puerto Rico, finished out of the running, and then defeated Raul Masvidal, 43, another Cuban refugee, in a runoff last Tuesday...
...supremacists known as the Order has waged its own private war against the "Zionist Occupation Government" of the U.S. In Seattle last week, federal officials continued their all-out attack on the neo-Nazi gang, announcing the indictment of 23 members under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). The indictment charges that members of the Order were responsible for crimes including counterfeiting, armored-car robberies and two murders, one of them the assassination of radio Talk-Show Host Alan Berg in Denver. It was the first time the RICO statute, which has been used frequently against organized crime...
...sold them all for $30 each, nearly triple the normal price. When they were gone, Overstreet began contacting foreign bottlers to import the drink, which has not yet been replaced by new Coke abroad. His search took him from England ("It didn't taste right") to Mexico, Puerto Rico and finally Brazil. On the day Coca-Cola disclosed that it was reviving the old beverage, a Rio bottler was about to ship Overstreet 300 cases of Brazilian Coke, the first of up to 10,000 cases. In a mild panic, the California merchant hastily canceled the deal...
Back home the newspapers call her the Queen of Fire and Water because a fire broke out during one preliminary pageant and it rained heavily in San Juan on the night she was named Miss Puerto Rico. Deborah Carthy-Deu, 19, paid no attention to those omens. Like any self-respecting teen, she was impressed with the fact that the last of her facial marks from a bout with chicken pox cleared up two days before the deciding pageant in Puerto Rico. From there she was on a roll, and last week in Miami she became the 34th Miss Universe...
...first time all week, the 20th-ranked pair of Chu and Kumar played together in the top slot. But the No. 16 pairing of Scott Doerner and Pedro Rico took six of the last nine games to win the match...