Word: centro
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...Centro gave the word early last January. In five tenements along West Newton Street in Boston's South End, the rent strike began. A handful of Puerto Ricans, nine families in all, refused to pay their rent until the slumlord brought the buildings up to Housing Code standards. He responded by turning off the heat one night in the apartment of one of the strikers and her four children. But they held...
After the rent strike, the reputation of the Centro de Accion (Action Center), Iglesias' organization, burgeoned. The people were angry now, and they began to notice the Centro's activities. The rat holes and broken sewer pipes in the five tenements had shocked Health Department officials so that they condemned the buildings, and the displaced families found homes which were at least a little better...
...Centro was off and running...
...other U.S. military air accidents last week, a Navy jet bomber buzzed California's El Centro Naval Air Facility in a Navy Day show, clipped a power pole and slammed into a recreation center. Nine persons were killed...
Potential national leaders in Centro America are cut off from one another, he said. The project's job is to get the tenant farmers, the bishops, the mill-owners, the shop-owners, and the mayors "together in the same room," to solve their own problems, not to force an ideology on them...