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North Dakota's Burlington Dam. The $117 million project on the Souris River is designed to prevent periodic flooding in parts of Minot. The reservoir would be dry most of the time, and the release of the water at flood stage could create almost as much damage to farm land and the ecology as it would prevent in the city...
...Hispanic presence has been a palpable one in U.S. life for centuries. But broad awareness of its scope and potential did not really dawn until the 1960s, with the unionizing struggles of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers and the spread of Hispanic populations. Today, migratory bands of Hispanics are picking apples in Washington and Oregon, helping with the harvest in the Midwest, tending vegetable and fruit crops in California's fertile valleys. Hispanics are also flooding virtually every important U.S. city in search of better jobs, creating latino enclaves from the crowded barrios of East Los Angeles and Spanish...
...vote for him in 1974 because she did not become naturalized until the next year. But now, says Ignacio Lozano, publisher of Los Angeles' Spanish-language daily La Opinión, there is "very clearly a political awakening." In 1976 members of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers registered an estimated 350,000 voters in the state, bringing total registration to 52% of eligible Hispanic voters. Los Angeles' United Neighborhood Organization (UNO) is mobilizing thousands of barrio citizens to improve their neighborhoods. Says Father Luis Olivares, an East Los Angeles priest and UNO organizer: "The people involved...
...period of high unemployment. Farmers near Presidio, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley, learned that lesson while cooperating with a local INS crackdown on undocumented laborers from the nearby Mexican town of Ojinaga. The growers took out newspaper advertisements requesting 4,000 domestic agricultural workers at the minimum farm wage of $2.20 an hour. They got 300 replies. Finally the growers were allowed by the INS to import the help they needed ?from Ojinaga...
...HORSE THIEF'S new wife, Miss Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen), is not exactly your average female protagonist in a Western. Ambitious and pennywise, Julia lives on a farm outside Longhorn, which lies near an abandoned gold mine bequeathed by her late father. In need of a man to help her strike it rich and return to her beloved Philadelphia, Julia settles for the grungy Moone, despite his atrocious table manners and ravenous sexual appetite...