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...gave up private law practice in Los Angeles two years ago to establish California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., which provides free legal help to the state's farm workers, many of them Mexican Americans. C.R.L.A. works through the law and tackles anything from predatory salesmen who extract $500 in time-payments from uncomprehending victims for $100 cameras, to California Governor Ronald Reagan, who tried vainly last year to curtail the program's influence. C.R.L.A. has won 85% of the 4,000 cases it has taken to court. The benefits, as Lorenz sees them, go far beyond the courtroom...
...double consciousness, or realizing that both Southern Myths are real. In itself, the recognition of both sides is not surprising. What is shattering is finding that one Southern town, one store, or one drawling person can fit into both schemes, and that by artful manipulation, an observer can extract the puree of both dreams from any given situation...
...drug is not patentable, and the substance occurs naturally in broad beans and velvet beans. A well-equipped chemical factory can easily extract...
...junta is thus trying to extract a big vote for the constitution with the positive stimulus of their propaganda barrage. They are also using the negative idea, which is really a thinly-disguised threat, that a "No" vote would result in a stricter alternative. The ruling clique is suppressing all dissenting opinion, and commanding a network of spies and informers throughout the country. Finally, they are capitalizing on the captive vote of soldiers, civil servants, and teachers--all of whom are under the junta's thumb...
...terror, torture and rigged purge trials. Nothing escaped their attention. Several Prague newspapers sent reporters to interview former political prisoners, published detailed charges that they had been regularly beaten by guards. Interior Minister Josef Pavel, himself a purge victim in 1951, revealed that the police had tried to extract a confession from him by putting an empty pail over his head and beating against it "until I nearly went...