Word: copse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
"Cops are coming!" somebody yells, 400 policement, clad in storm helmets and gas masks, armed with rifles and riot sticks, charge University Hall in systematic thrusts. State police drag bloodied protesters out of the building, where they will arrest nearly 300. "If you don't stay there I'll break...
Already film makers are leaving Hollywood, at least geographically, to survive and thrive. George Lucas presides over a contingent of resourceful directors in the San Francisco area. And New York, which lost its production-center supremacy to California 65 years ago, is again nourishing film makers. Benton, Brian De Palma...
Mechai Viravaidya's calling card is a condom. In Bangkok, ambassadors invite him to formal dinners, knowing that he will probably use the occasion to blow up a bright red prophylactic for the host and pass out multicolored birth control pills to the ladies. Sometimes he brings along his...