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Andrew Young, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and Henry Cisneros, a K-School alumnus who was recently elected mayor of San Antonio, Texas, were also sought out, aides to the two said.
Cisneros' election marks the high point of a long struggle by San Antonio's Hispanics to wrest power from the Anglo establishment. Adopting the confrontational tactics of the late Saul Alinsky, local Hispanic leaders in 1974 formed a social action group called Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS...
Cisneros, first elected a councilman in 1975, was instrumental in bringing a measure of peace to that divided body. When the opposition proposed attracting business to San Antonio by advertising the city's low wages, COPS angrily proposed that no company be allowed to move into San Antonio without...
The growth has also created new problems for San Antonio and an increasingly visible rift between Cisneros and COPS. The new mayor hammered away at the need for economic development during his campaign but refused to promise that new building would be confined to inner-city neighborhoods. "You can'...
Like other cities, San Antonio faces cutbacks under the Reagan Administration's new budget. The city's economy still benefits from two important sources: Government spending generated, in part, by the large military installations at nearby Lackland Air Force Base and Fort Sam Houston; and federal funds for...