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...with fourth-grade geography and the fact that Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable body of water on earth. Yet this vast land mass, drooping from North America like some ripe, unplucked fruit, has produced some of this century's major poets and novelists: Peru's Cesar Vallejo, Chile's Pablo Neruda, Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia...
Ross recruited Cesar Chavez, the present leader of the union, from the barrios of San Jose...
...decade sometimes seem naive to embittered children of the '70s. We've redonned three-piece suits and high-heeled shoes. Tequila sunrises have given way to vodka martinis, love beads to lustrous pearls. We buy lettuce and grapes either because we've forgotten that we shouldn't or because Cesar Chavez's cause seems hopeless or because we've ceased to care about California's farm workers. And when we scan a semi-crowded subway car, we unconciously choose a seat next to a member of our own race. Slogans linger but they no longer resound with passion. Instead, they...
...Tears. But in the next section, Colleague David Herbert Donald (who writes crisply on the Civil War) reduces the entire Indian conflict in the West to one paragraph. Americans of Puerto Rican or Mexican origin are given hardly a nod, and then a misguided one: the book asserts that Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers movement "declined...
Holy Cause. Which leaves unanswered the real question: Why did the Teamsters give up a fight they had been winning? Under the agreement, the Teamsters will render unto Cesar workers whom they had been taking away from him. Using their financial resources and, according to the U.F.W., "goon squads," the Teamsters had already persuaded more than 50,000 of California's 250,000 agricultural workers to join them rather than the U.F.W. Chavez, who is better at persuading liberals to regard boycotting grapes and lettuce as a holy cause than he is at administering union services or efficiently parceling...