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...last Friday, Manuel Antonio Sanchez Perez was leaving a Madrid bank when three men jumped him. Sanchez, Cuba's deputy planning minister, who had been granted provisional asylum in Spain, fought furiously. "They're going to kill me!" he screamed as his pistolwaving assailants wrestled him into a waiting car driven by a woman accomplice. Some 30 to 50 bystanders quickly surrounded the auto. A cab pulled over and blocked the vehicle's escape while the crowd dragged Sanchez to safety, holding the would-be abductors until police arrived. All turned out to be Cuban embassy personnel, including the vice...
...event suggested that there might be truth to a rumor making the rounds of Madrid's Cuban-exile community that Sanchez was also a spy who may have been ready to spill secrets to the West. After expressing its "repulsion" at the botched kidnaping, the Socialist government of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez expelled the four Cubans. Sanchez, meanwhile, was hustled off to an undisclosed location and placed under armed guard...
...nothing new to The Crimson your attacks on the Conservative Club are. In the past few years the Conservative Club has offered a notable counterpoint to prevailing liberal opinion on the Harvard campus. We have hosted speakers including Senator Eugene McCarthy, now Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams, Nestor Sanchez from the Dept. of Defense, leaders of the Nicaraguan contras, Professors Richard Pipes, Harvey Mansfield, and many others. The views of these and other speakers receive wide currency outside Harvard, if not necessarily on campus, and we have found that many students are interested in hearing these viewpoints even...
...Sanchez novel, "The Hurricane Dance," is a love story between a coyote, or border smuggler, and a well-established shop-keeper. Both deal with the problem of reconciling the need to make money with the desire to help people in a run-down beach town on the Mexican border...
...Sanchez took an eight-year leave from school to go home and work on his book. "I was living in a vacant house in the boondocks of southern Texas. I watched the people, got some ideas and noted them. My novel sprung out, almost automatically, from my notes,' Sanchez says...