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Word: cruz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bertoldo Garcia Cruz, a car mechanic, had just taken his son to Public School No. 3 on Avenida Chapultepec. "We were in the school's main office when everything around us, four floors, went down. I helped take out four bodies, mutilated, all 14-year-olds. I took one out who was injured, but maybe he'll live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Noise Like Thunder | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...Cruz tells of meeting with Boston city councilor James Kelley to get funding for Keylatch. "This man was [pictured] in the Boston Herald throwing bricks at Black kids during the busing controversy, and I went to him and said, 'I'm not political, [but] helping me will improve your image in the Hispanic community.' He gave me money...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: A Less Showy Kind of Activism | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

...Cruz is forthright in saying to others that "in the long run, what I'm doing is political: helping kids from poor neighborhoods use education as a tool..to become leaders...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: A Less Showy Kind of Activism | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

Every time Cruz takes the T to West Newton St., he says, he is making a political statement. Moreover, that's often more effective politics than a campus sit-in or rally, he adds: "Sometimes protests build animosity. It's more effective to be diplomatic, to organize a debate...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: A Less Showy Kind of Activism | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

This is especially true, Cruz asserts, when you are dealing with Harvard. "The administration is very powerful. You can't move them with emotional ploys...What people need to do is have an irrefutable argument for divestment, and until that comes about, the University won't change its policy [which all but precludes divesting...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: A Less Showy Kind of Activism | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

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