Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taste for mass-produced, disposable culture that we take for granted nowadays--a taste that even extends to our view of history. Where once the news media tried to place the news in a broad historical perspective, the closest they come today is producing specials on which Geraldo Rivera builds the public to a frenzy in anticipation of unlocking Al Capones' subletted crawlspace...
...conflagration that killed 96 people. Police said Escudero admitted his role in the second worst hotel fire in U.S. history after witnesses led investigators to him. He was accused of 96 counts of murder, as well as charges of arson and conspiracy. The next day authorities arrested Armando Jimenez Rivera, a busboy, for allegedly providing Escudero with the fuel. Both men pleaded innocent; further arrests are expected...
Judge Carlos Rivera Martinez of the local court set bail at $2 million. Escudero Aponte was transferred to the Rio Piedras State Penitentiary in the San Juan metropolitan area. Arenas ordered him held without bail until Friday and set a hearing for January...
...hotel worker, Hector Escudero Aponte, was the first person arrested in the case, but Justice Secretary Hector Rivera Cruz said officials believed he had not acted alone...
...Rivera Cruz said in a statement that Escudero Aponte was charged with "setting fire to the Dupont Plaza Hotel on New Year's Eve, in agreement with others." But he said the investigation was continuing and therefor he could provide no further information...