Word: urrutia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lovely incongruity, weight lifters took over the symphony hall, and to a harpist's rendition of The Harmonious Blacksmith, Cuban-born Roberto ("Tony") Urrutia tried his hand as an American. The three-time world champion, who defected seven years ago on the end of a bedsheet in Mexico City, finished third in the middleweight class to two former countrymen. Fidel Castro sent them his congratulations: "You taught an exemplary lesson to the traitor." Urrutia declared he was glad to be free, "like a bird," but the / medal ceremony was bittersweet. "When I hear the national anthem," he said wistfully...
...negotiations with Che. The Commandante is a sardonic figure who sometimes talks like William F. Buckley in fatigues and beret: "Disappointing . . . is a distinctively English, meiotic expression." Wherever Oakes settles in, a pair of alluring hazel eyes cannot be far away. This time they are blinked by Catalina Urrutia, a Cuban translator, moralist and flirt. After the requisite tango, the CIA man and the beautiful bilinguist end up in the percales. Heavy breathing leads to weighty revelations, and the smitten Catalina shows Blackford her ultimate secret: four medium-range Soviet ballistic missiles hidden in the hinterland...
When Winthrop's Gregory Urrutia went scramblng for a loose puck during an intramural ice hockey match against Kirkland the other night, he didn't expect to emerge from the corner with a separated shoulder. Then again, he didn't expect to bump into Jim Phills...
...Benjamin Urrutia Albany...
DIED. Manuel Urrutia Lleo, 79, Cuban judge who in January 1959 became the first provisional President of Fidel Castro's revolutionary government, only to be denounced as a traitor by Castro six months later and forced to resign; in New York City. Urrutia, who charged that Castro had transformed Cuba into a "Red hell," spent four years under house arrest and in asylum at the Venezuelan and Mexican embassies in Havana before gaining safe-conduct to the U.S., where he led a coalition of 22 anti-Castro exile groups...