Word: cruz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another PBH activist insists adamantly that protest is not the way to go. "People who organize protests have really good intentions, but they haven't seen that many results, at least not at Harvard," asserts Remigio Cruz '86, who spends several afternoons a week and lives summers in a predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood in Boston's South...
...Cruz's philosophy is an outgrowth of his experiences as director of PBH's Keylatch program in the Villa Victoria housing project, where he says he "learned how politics works...how to get along with people to get money and to get things done...
...immigrant women work, about the same as U.S. women. Even for those who have traded their white-collar jobs at home for blue-collar jobs here, the drop in status is offset by the satisfaction of a significant rise in income and the hope of moving on. Anna Cruz-Vasquez is 56 and divorced. She came alone from the Dominican Republic in 1977 and with a garment-industry job that has never paid % more than $130 a week has managed to send for four of her six children. "I lived on 150 pesos ($48) a month in Santo Domingo...
...some people on the hotel staff. In between the interrogations, the writers talk to us. Now a guy like myself didn't just fall off the turnip truck. I mean, I caught on right away they were hawking their books. I liked some of it, though. For instance, Martin Cruz Smith, the guy that wrote Gorky Park, was asked whether the movie Gorky Park followed the book, and Smith said, "Yeah, like a mugger follows a victim." I liked that...
...Salvadoran army has been more aggressive in conducting sweeps of guerrilla country, and claims to have the Marxist rebels on the defensive. But the guerrillas have proved adept at disappearing into the bush, then materializing again for attacks like the one last week on the village of Santa Cruz Loma (see WORLD...