Word: antonios
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Since 1968, the Department of Labor has overseen federal Work Incentive programs (WIN), which provide job training for welfare recipients, primarily women with children. One of the most successful has been in San Antonio, where half of 150 participants were moved off the welfare rolls in a year on a budget of only $200,000. WIN offered day care to mothers. Minnesota has had a Work Equity Program (WEP) that has trained more than 6,000 unemployed. Experts estimate that for every $1,000 spent for WEP counseling, $10,000 was saved in direct welfare expenditures. Milwaukee County...
...morning early last week, three members of El Salvador's ruling civilian-military junta were busy making surprisingly festive appearances at widely separated haciendas. At a rich estate in the San Isidro Valley, José Antonio Morales Ehrlich addressed a solemn crowd of peasants gathered on the soccer field. "In El Salvador, the exploitation of the peasants has definitely ended," he told them. "Today you work the land for your own benefit." Another junta member, José Ramón Avalos Navarrete, presided over ceremonies at a sugar and coffee plantation near the Guatemala border. At a cotton plantation...
...principle commercial activity centers on Calle de la Pricessa and Avenida de Jose Antonio, south of which lies a maze of twisting alleys lined by innumerable restaurants. This is the Madrid you see in brochures, the old part of town that converges on Plaza Mayor and Plaza del Sol. This part of the city brings the reality of Spain somewhat closer to the idealized conception: Here you can sit down to a meal of paella, the music of guitars in the distance, and know you're not in America any more...
...continued to simmer. Salvadoran troops moved in and cleared guerrillas off the Conchagua volcano, near La Union. The 700 gunmen reportedly stationed there had retreated long before the assault was finished. Government forces also regained control of the tiny town of San Antonio de Los Ranches in Chalatenango, nearly completing the recapture of villages seized by the guerrillas in their failed January offensive...
Lieut. Colonel Antonio Tejero, who led the assault on parliament last week, commanded Guardia Civil units in the Basque province of Guipúzcoa before he was transferred, in 1977, for refusing to allow the newly authorized Basque national flag to be flown. Posted to Málaga, in southern Spain, he ordered his men to break up a government-authorized leftist demonstration on the ground that "no one is allowed to demonstrate here, because Spain is in mourning [over terrorism]." After his arrest in 1978 for participating in a plot to overthrow the government, he sent a revealing open...