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...coalition of Mexican-American groups pressed the U.S. Justice Department to bring federal charges against the Hanigans. At first, Government officials refused, contending that the civil rights statutes did not protect illegal aliens. The decision so angered Antonio Bustamante, a Douglas native studying at the Antioch College of Law in Washington, D.C., that he started a campaign resulting in a federal indictment of the Hanigan brothers for violating the Hobbs Act, which prohibits interference in interstate commerce. By torturing the Mexicans, reasons the indictment, the Hanigans prevented the aliens from working in the U.S. The case marks the first time...
Others remember all too well. Says Sister Corina Padilla, a Dominican missionary nun in Tucson: "This kind of violence isn't unusual. In fact, it's quite normal." Adds Ruben Sandoval, a San Antonio attorney observing the trial: "This is still the kind of place where white supremacy reigns, and others have to fight to survive. This is the wild, wild West...
...Carlos Aguilar, reporter for KENS-TV in San Antonio, Texas...
...pump is already about 55% higher than last spring-$1.20 for a gallon of regular, vs. 77? last year -and sure to go up again soon. Prices now range from $1.14 in San Antonio to $1.27 in Chicago. Deputy Energy Secretary John Sawhill said last week that gasoline prices would soon increase up to 8? per gal., owing to decontrol of domestic crude oil prices and further OPEC rises. In a recent Gallup poll, 87% of those surveyed said that higher prices had pushed them to reform their driving habits. Even in autoerotic Los Angeles, the number of car pool...
...ships to help the U.S. Coast Guard assist scores of boats in distress. "If they could build a bridge that would connect Havana and Miami, there would be no one left in Cuba!" hooted one middle-aged arrival. Or almost no one, to hear the refugees. Said José Antonio Aras, 77: "President Fidel Castro will be the only one there...