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...John B. Cruz, the owner of the construction firm, said yesterday the winter storm knocked down the staging for the brick work two times and together with the heavy snow helped to delay the project four weeks...
...sweeps into the shabby residential Manila district of Santa Cruz in a black limousine, escorted by a busload of security guards and surrounded by political aides, cheerleaders, TV and movie stars. The crowd is enthralled by First Lady Imelda Marcos' skillful blend of political harangue and folksy charm. "I can tell the President what you need here," she says. "And you know that Imelda always gets action. "As the crowd roars its approval, Mrs. Marcos sings a couple of old favorite Filipino songs and throws jasmine garlands into the audience. Then she is off-for yet another speech...
...opening paragraph of "Protest Time Again" [March 6] telescopes events that took place almost a full year apart; the Stanford and Santa Cruz sit-ins concerning investments in South Africa occurred last spring, the Oregon and Portland State events in recent weeks. The nature of these events was also sharply different; the massive sit-ins last spring were remarkably peaceful and dominated by ideals of nonviolent civil disobedience, whereas the Oregon shows were run by an avowedly Communist organization, the Student Revolutionary Brigade, and involved small numbers of self-proclaimed revolutionaries...
DIED. Matthew Josephson, 79, biographer of an imposing collection of Old and New World figures; in Santa Cruz, Calif. After a period as a young expatriate in Paris in the 1920s, Josephson concentrated on famous Frenchmen (Rousseau and Zola). But a roving intellect led him home to do literary portraits of Americans (Thomas Edison, Al Smith and Sidney Hillman) as well as a study of 19th century capitalists whose rapacious ways he exploited in his most celebrated book, The Robber Barons...
...Stanford University, 294 protesters are arrested during a demonstration outside the student union building; in Santa Cruz, 401 University of California students are charged with trespassing; administration buildings at the University of Oregon and Portland State University are occupied by protesters; a silent demonstration is held by a group of 100 at Wesleyan University. It is all eerily reminiscent of the Viet Nam War days, but the protests involve a new generation and a different issue: college ownership of stock in U.S. corporations that operate in ?or have dealings with?South Africa...