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...biggest man hunts in Arizona's history pursued the murderous Tison family, and police set up a roadblock near Tison's home town of Casa Grande, Ariz. Soon, a silver van slowed at the signal from police, then sped on with a blast of gunfire from its windows. Five miles down the road, alerted deputies at another roadblock fired at the passing vehicle, killing Donald Tison. After a half-hour gun battle his two brothers and Greenawalt surrendered. The father, Gary, fled into the desert...
...public attention. A year ago he sat for the David Frost television interviews. Last winter he went to Hubert Humphrey's funeral. He and Pat flew to New York and the Bahamas, making small banter with photographers at stops along the way. They threw a party back at Casa Pacifica for some 300 returned Viet Nam P.O.W.s. Nixon also gave a party to celebrate the publication of his memoirs. Despite the $19.95 price and the many early (somewhat gloating) predictions of failure, the book has been riding for weeks now in the middle ranges of the bestseller lists...
...Casa Mexico(on Winthrop St. off Mt. Auburn) offers excellent food at fairly dear prices; although the prices are steep by Mexican restaurant standards, Casa Mexico has to be the clear choice over La Pinata...
Bert Corona, former director of CASA, a Los Angeles-based group which lobbies for progressive immigration legislation, will speak at 7:30 followed by Timothy Whalen, acting district director for the Immigration and Naturalization Service who will present Carter's plan for dealing with the immigration problem. Jose Medina, former director of the Centro de Immigration at Georgetown University Law School, will respond to the Carter plan...
...barrio, bodegas (grocery stores) like El Coloso on Broadway which cater to Latin American tastes are close at hand. Also close by is Casa Alegre, a Latin-American record store which sells Spanish newspapers and statuettes of the saints as a sideline. Around the corner in Central Square is the Latin-O Restaurant. Its authentic Hispanic cuisin attracts a 90 per cent Anglo clientele, however. After all, local Hispanics can buy in the neighborhood bodega the same ingredients the Latin-O uses, and make equally authentic Latin cuisine in their homes...