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Task force member organizations include Organization for the Solidarity of Third World Students, the Radcliffe Union of Students, the Chicano Law Students Organization, La Organizacion, H-R coalition of Asian Americans, February 1st Movement, Women's Law Association, R-H New american Movement, H-R La Raza, R-H Women's Center, Law Students Asian coalition and the School of Design's student hiring committee
...case: Los Angeles-based West Coast Schools recruited mostly black and Chicano students-"because that's where the gravy is," as President Fred Peters told his exwife, according to subcommittee testimony. It then sold nearly $5.4 million in federally insured loans to financial institutions for cash, leaving the institutions to dun dropouts like Ponce for the money or collect from the Government. The Senators heard testimony that at least $312,000 of the school's money found its way into Peters' personal accounts. W.C.S. folded in 1973. Peters was excused from testifying because of ill health...
Married. Freddie Prinze, 21, the self-described Hungarican (half Hungarian, half Puerto Rican) comic who plays the cheeky Chicano garage attendant on TV's top-rated Chico and the Man; and Kathy Cochran, 23, a Jackson Hole, Wyo., travel agent he met on a ski trip last spring; both for the first time; in Las Vegas...
...CHICANO LIBERATION FRONT. With at least 15 hardcore members, the group apparently is centered in the barrios of Los Angeles. Last year a message purportedly from the front claimed responsibility for the slaying of Police Chief William Cann of Union City, Cal., but a subsequent communique denied it. This year the group said that it was behind the bombing of four buildings on the night of March 10 in San Jose and the San Francisco area...
Every day at dawn last week, Cesar Chavez was out in the green and gold California fields, pleading with Mexican, Filipino, Yemenite and native American workers. At 7:15 a.m. one day, the charismatic Chicano had to halt his early-bird campaigning and leave the Elmco Ranch near Delano, Calif. The time had arrived for the 725 workers on the huge, grape-laden spread to decide whether to join Chavez's beleaguered United Farm Workers of America or remain in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which has held the union contract since 1973. The election yielded a margin...