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...overcome if his spiritual mission was to succeed. John Paul's Guatemala stop, scheduled for Monday, ran into trouble when President Efrain Rios Montt ordered the execution of six suspected terrorists, ignoring a last-minute papal plea for clemency. In a message to Guatemalan Bishop Prospero Pernados del Barrio, John Paul confirmed that he still planned to visit Guatemala but condemned the executions. Said the Pope: "I cannot fail to think with immense pain of the recent executions that have taken place in your nation and to invoke divine mercy on all these deceased of this country of Central America...
...difficult to believe, as Caro does, that Johnson's life was entirely a record of "viciousness and cruelty, . . . all-encompassing personal ambition. . . and aggressiveness." Indeed, Caro seeks to cast a pall even over the noblest incident in Johnson's youth, his student-teaching in the Cotulla barrio, interpreting the future President's success in the job as evidence of his need to create situations in which he was in complete control...
...MESA students in the classes of Jaime Escalante know that one teacher rather than grand programs can make the biggest difference. Escalante, 51, a Bolivian immigrant who arrived in the U.S. speaking no English, is chairman of the math department at Garfield High School in the east Los Angeles barrio. With his support, 18 students decided to take the advanced placement calculus test, given to only 2.7% of college-bound seniors by the Educational Testing Service. Drilling them two hours a day after school and assigning four hours' worth of problems for every Saturday, Escalante mounted a 35-week...
...bedroom was to have less bearing on subsequent events than what had gone before. Bonnie, an affectionate, vivacious woman with a mane of red hair and a fine soprano voice, came from a well-to-do suburban family. Richard, an illegitimate child, was a product of the Los Angeles barrio. The lovers met at Yale, of which Bonnie's father was a prominent alumnus; she was a freshman and Richard was a senior. Despite the differences in their interests and background, and opposition from her parents, the romance lasted 2½ years before Bonnie wanted...
...unfairness of academic affirmative-action policies based solely on race, he turned down all the professorships offered and became a writer. Rodriguez realized that "the policy of affirmative action was never able to distinguish someone like me from a slightly educated Mexican American who lived in a barrio. Worse, affirmative action made me the beneficiary of his condition." Today, he believes, colleges do nonwhite students a disservice by recruiting them without due regard for their preparation or chances to succeed. "The revolutionary demand," Rodriguez writes, would be for "a reform of primary and secondary schools...