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  • proper noun Alternative form of Mayagüez.

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Examples

  • Marines involved in Mayaguez came from Okinawa (9th battalion) and a company from the PI also was involved.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • In East Harlem, Jose Velez-Torres, born 78 years ago in Mayaguez, sent in his paperwork for a new birth certificate in April, as soon as he heard about the policy.

    Puerto Rico scraps birth records « 2010

  • Comment: The University of Pueto Rico is not in Mayaguez, it is in the San Juan Metro area, specifically Rio Piedras.

    Schneider: Puerto Ricans have strong ties to United States 2008

  • Mayaguez is a college town, but students don’t but on their college town, they go back to their hometown to cast the vote; this is because they are register on their hometown.

    Puerto Rico kicks off final week of primaries 2008

  • Need to correct CNN error about the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) located in Mayaguez.

    Puerto Rico kicks off final week of primaries 2008

  • It was called the Mayaguez Incident, historically considered the last battle of the conflict in Southeast Asia.

    Garcia, Andres 1975

  • There is also no mention of the Khmer Rouge or Pol Pot, though in a misleading digression into the co-called Mayaguez Incident, Zinn mentions that "a revolutionary regime had just taken power" in Cambodia and treated its American prisoners rather well.

    Reason Magazine 2010

  • The April 8 attack by Somali pirates has eerie echoes of that bloody 1975 debacle known as the Mayaguez incident.

    KSL / U.S. / National 2009

  • The April 8 attack by Somali pirates has eerie echoes of that bloody 1975 debacle known as the Mayaguez incident.

    kstp.com - MORE NEWS 2009

  • The April 8 attack by Somalian pirates has eerie echoes of that bloody 1975 debacle known as the Mayaguez incident.

    unknown title 2009

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