Word: cesare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growers, with a "we know our Mexicans" attitude, insisted that the vast majority of the laborers wanted no union at all. But the Huelga had already become a nationalistic cause for the Mexican-Americans. They had songs in Spanish, Mexican revolutionary figures as heroes, and an impressive, magnetic leader--Cesar Chavez...
...auto near the town of La Fragua, 55 miles from the capital, and shot by Communist terrorists as "an enemy of the people." Such killings are the trademark of Luis Turcios Lima, 24, a former Guatemalan army officer who leads a daring band of 250 terrorists. Though President Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro has offered the guerrillas an amnesty ever since he took over last May from the military regime of Colonel Enrique Peralta, they refused to lay down their arms...
...students at Mexico City's National University cared for Dean Cesar Sepulveda's ideas. Not only did he demand regular class attendance but he also required students to take examinations. And he even had the temerity two months ago to suspend two students who made failing grades. Basta! The 7,000 law students went on strike. Last week the strike exploded into a full-scale riot...
...this first breakthrough in the bitter fight between growers and workers, who have been on strike for recognition since last September, had been achieved by the massive support given to the strikers by California's churches. "It is the single most important thing that has helped us," says Cesar Chávez, organizer of the union...
Fanny was the big gamble of Merrick's career, and he stood to his bets with tremendous nerve and style. He made three trips to Europe before Marcel Pagnol agreed to sell the rights to his famous cinema trilogy-Marius, Fanny, Cesar. And then Merrick spent three months nailing down the subsidiary rights and three months persuading Josh Logan to go see Pagnol's pictures and three months marking time until he was ready to direct the show and six months working with the librettist and the songwriter and three months signing up Ezio Pinza and Walter Slezak...