Word: bosch
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Venezuelans stiffed us. They really did." The Bush Administration official was complaining about how Venezuelan authorities placed Orlando Bosch, a convicted anti-Castro Cuban terrorist, on an airliner bound for Miami in February 1988. His arrival in the U.S. presented the Reagan Administration with a quandary: lock Bosch up or free a man widely seen as a hero in Florida's Cuban-exile community...
...Bosch will be kept under virtual house arrest while the State Department tries to find a country to which to ship him. But he seems undaunted by the restrictions. Although he must log all visitors and wear an electronic anklet, Bosch vows that he will "speak to anybody I want to" during the three hours a day he is free to walk the streets of Miami's Little Havana...
When elections were held last week in the Dominican Republic, the two closest contenders for President were old -- very old -- rivals: Joaquin Balaguer, 82 and blind with glaucoma, the current leader, and Juan Bosch, 80, a Marxist and former President who now endorses capitalism as the way to cure the country's economy...
Early returns gave the feisty Bosch the lead, but by week's end, with nearly 87% of the votes counted, Balaguer had squeaked ahead with 11,000 votes. Declaring the election a "colossal fraud," Bosch called for massive demonstrations. Says a Dominican pollster: "It appears that the elder of the dinosaurs...