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...that the problem was one for the OAS. At OAS headquarters in Washington, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker urgently advised Latin Americans to honor their pledge for a multination military force to help the U.S. keep order. And indeed, the first Latin Americans started arriving: 250 Honduran infantrymen, 20 Costa Rican policemen. Others were on their way from Nicaragua, probably from Brazil...
...glasses and a steel-wool mustache. To blot out a world full of past and present horrors, Sol listlessly endures an affair with his best friend's widow. He spurns the friendship of a sympathetic social worker (Geraldine Fitzgerald), slowly begins to soften toward his troubled young Puerto Rican assistant (Jaime Sanchez), then crushes the boy by telling him: "You are nothing to me." In the tragic aftermath of that rejection, Nazerman's dead soul is awakened at least a little...
Chum Steele, fresh from the lton Tournament, is on top of his game. He defeated the Puerto Rican champion before losing to America's top player, Tennis Ralston...
...dreams embedded in urban concrete and spun from the thoughts of people who could not conceivably exist. But beneath the deceptive surface lurks the insistent point that reality and surreality are separated by no more than a crack in the sidewalk. Ishmael Ramos, for instance, is a young Puerto Rican who works in the boiler room at the Columbia University gym and for whom reality is wearing an undergraduate's outfit and rooting for Columbia's football team. He does not understand the game; it is enough that the Lions' miserable performance provides a stern test...
Unlike the President's bill, such an amendment would meet the question of discrimination outside the South. In New York State it would, for instance, eliminate a test that requires voters to read and write English, thus denying the vote to thousands of Spanish-speaking citizens of Puerto Rican birth...