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Ironically, the Cubans themselves are a divided community. La Comunidad, as the older Cubans are called, fears the Marielitos will tarnish the reputation they have labored so hard to build in South Florida. "I tell my employees that if a black comes here asking for money, give it to him," says one prosperous Cuban gas station owner in Little Havana. "If an Anglo comes to rob us, give it to him. But if a Marielito comes here, kill him. I will pay for everything." The older Cubans also find themselves in a cultural and political split with the younger ones...
...AWACS deal when he met with 43 Republican Senators in the East Room of the White House. "The sale is particularly important in light of the tragedy of yesterday," he said. Indeed a defeat, which would mark the first time that the Hill had blocked an arms deal, would tarnish Reagan's projection of authority abroad and represent a slap at the Saudis...
Thompson and Eilts, however, asserted that the sale would not endanger the fragile Middle East peace and that defeat of the package--which can be vetoed by majority vote in the Senate and House--would tarnish the image of Reagan and the United States. Thompson added the rejection would force the Saudis to buy British radar planes...
...There is a tarnish on the Veritas today. The good name of the University is being used to disadvantage," Edwin Ginn '18, a Boston tinancier, charged in 1956 when he resigned as the Class of 1918's representative to the Harvard Fund Council. Ginn, protesting the appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 as William James Lecturer, called the famous scientist "a known Communist sympathizer and confessed liar in a matter of espionage." Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) also challenged then-President Nathan M. Pusey's appointment of Oppenheimer, whom McCarthy considered a "security risk...
Hofheinz said the purpose of the trial is "to tarnish the image of Mao," adding that Chinese leaders are "trying to do so in a way that is consonant with some set of legalistic values...