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...Hispanic presence has been a palpable one in U.S. life for centuries. But broad awareness of its scope and potential did not really dawn until the 1960s, with the unionizing struggles of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers and the spread of Hispanic populations. Today, migratory bands of Hispanics are picking apples in Washington and Oregon, helping with the harvest in the Midwest, tending vegetable and fruit crops in California's fertile valleys. Hispanics are also flooding virtually every important U.S. city in search of better jobs, creating latino enclaves from the crowded barrios of East Los Angeles and Spanish...
There are a number of reasons for the underrepresentation: the Hispanics' relatively late arrival as a major immigrant group; their reservations about politics, often the result of once having lived under corrupt, autocratic regimes; their traditional preoccupation with family and community affairs rather than broad political issues; outright racial and social discrimination. But the most immediate ?and most easily remedied?reason is their failure to register in sufficient numbers. Of 7 million Hispanics eligible to vote, only 37.8% are registered, vs. 66.7% of the population as a whole...
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Gromyko was in the U.S. for his seventh meeting with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance since the Carter Administration took office, and indications were that the gap between the U.S. and Soviet negotiators was narrowing. For more than a year, there has been broad agreement in three basic categories: limitation of total strategic missile systems to 2,250 for each side, a three-year ban on developing or testing new missile systems, and further negotiations for a SALT III treaty that would make additional cuts in strategic nuclear arsenals. At the last Vance-Gromyko meeting in Geneva, in July, both...
...artist-authors prove adept at combing a broad range of styles. The influence of Arthur Rackham is clearly evident; so are touches as wide-ranging as Hieronymus Bosch, the Pre-Raphaelites and Maxfield Parrish. The result is a seductive ring of words and bright pictures that encircles mystery and merriment and, eventually, the reader...