Word: centro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...February 10, UFW striker Rufino Contreras, 27, was shot in the face with a .38 caliber bullet by three grower foremen when he tried to talk with strikebreakers in a lettuce field near El Centro, California. His killers escaped justice when a local judge dismissed murder charges without taking testimony from farm worker eyewitnesses to the slaying...
...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...
...Response to the Carter Plan--Jose Medina, former director of the Centro de Immigration at Georgetown Law School...
...Communists, the Socialist Worker Party may garner close to 20%, while Fraga's rightist, neo-Franquista Alianza Popular is expected to poll a quarter of the vote. The most fluid situation is in the center. There the Christian Democrats, Social Democrats and a broad coalition called Centro Democrático are still discussing whether to enter the election as a bloc. Their decision partly depends on whether Suarez chooses to head such a centrist alliance in order to blunt some of Fraga's appeal. The Premier, however, can sit out the election. As a direct appointee...
...below the surface things have been changing with increasing rapidity, as the overall trend to the left and the growing rift between left and right in these elections demonstrates. The DC-headed coalitions of the "centro-sinistra" (center-left)--including the Christian Democrats and one or more of the smaller parties (Socialist, Social Democratic, or Republican)--have shown themselves increasingly unable to cope with Italy's economic problems over the past few years. The rapid post-war industrialization of the country and the accompanying rise in the standard of living seem, in retrospect, to have peaked in 1969. Since then...