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Matthiessen calls himself "too freaky" to go into politics. But he is deeply committed to the subject of his only political book-on United Farm Workers Leader Cesar Chavez. Matthiessen regards Chavez as "the perhaps single leader worthy of the name in the whole country," and he sometimes performs small chores for the farm workers. These days, he spends most of his time at his home far out on Long Island, writing in the mornings and playing with Alexander, 10, the youngest of his four children, most afternoons. Matthiessen expresses mild disappointment that his nonfiction books are better known than...
...difficulties go back to 1962, when Cesar Chavez, the union leader, started organizing farm workers; his grape boycott compelled many California growers to bargain with his United Farm Workers. Only a few years after Chavez had won that victory, however, the Teamsters Union moved into the California fields, using greater resources and occasionally bullyboy harassment. Often without the approval of their employees, many of the growers who had signed with Chavez jumped over to the Teamsters; that union seemed to offer them less trouble. At the same time, many workers also turned to the Teamsters, who ran a more efficient...
...Cesar Chavez, leader of the United Farmworkers Union, said at the Boston premier of the UFW film "Fighting For Our Lives" last night, that the Farmworkers would emerge victorious from their strike against the Gallo Wine...
...Front has named itself after Augusto Cesar Sandino, a Nicaraguan patriot who alternately battled, defeated and eluded U.S. Marines in the hills for seven years before he was tricked and murdered by the original Somoza in 1933. The Marines, sent to enforce Nicaragua's payment of loans held by North-American banks, were not the first imperialists to interfere in Nicaragua's affairs...
...HOUSTON--A strong ball club in a stronger division. The Astros will sorely miss the services of pitcher Don Wilson, who died by asphyxiation during the off season. Other than a lack of depth in the pitching department sluggers Cesar Cedeno and last year's Rookie of the Year Greg Gross provide plenty of offensive muscle...