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JOHN PILGE Santa Cruz, Calif...
...striking vineyard workers and their supporters trudged along. Some of them carried the blackeagle flags of the United Farm Workers Union, others a banner portraying the Virgin Mary. They sang hymns in honor of the man whose body lay in the coffin. He was Juan de la Cruz, 60, who had been among the first to join Cesar Chavez's campaign to organize the farm workers of California. While picketing at a vineyard south of Delano, De la Cruz had been shot down by rifle fire from a passing car. Now, at the grave-site in the small farming...
With the death of De la Cruz, and another striker killed only two days earlier in an altercation with police outside a barroom, violence returned to the vineyards of the San Joaquin Valley as Chavez struggled to save the union that he had welded together in the late 1960s. Three years ago, Chavez seemed victorious. He had signed contracts with 150 vineyards-most of the major ones in the U.S.-and had begun to organize workers in other fields, such as lettuce and strawberries. The grape producers were still bitter, and eager to rid themselves of Chavez...
...first break came in February, when Santa Cruz police arrested Herbert Mullin, 25, a slender, former mental patient, who is accused of killing ten of the Santa Cruz victims. Last week police in California and Colorado caught up with two other men, one believed to be the Nob Hill rapist and the other the butcher of Santa Cruz's coeds...
...about the time Bunyard was on his rampage, a 6-ft. 9-in., 278-lb. giant named Edmund Emil Kemper III was having one of his frequent fights with his mother, an administrative assistant at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He ended it by hitting her on the head with a hammer and cutting off her head and right hand. He strangled her friend, another college employee, and stuffed the bodies into separate bedroom closets in his mother's Santa Cruz home. Then Kemper, 24, climbed into his car and drove east until he reached Pueblo, Colo...