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...This year was by far the best recruitment year ever for us," Frank Garcia '76 says and he should know. As president of RAZA (the campus Chicano organization), Garcia supervised the entire operation from beginning to end, drawing up the original budget proposals for the recruitment program, signing up Chicanos here for trips to targeted areas in the Southwest last fall, and lobbying for the admission of individual applicants...
...year-long process begins in the early fall when RAZA officials submit the annual budget for recruitment to Byerly Hall. Then the hassles begin. "We have to justify our budget each year to the admissions office," Garcia says, and he points to the delay produced by the present system. "You can't get started until you get the funds, and it took us a long time this year...
...original recruitment budget RAZA submitted this fall called for $7000 to cover traveling and food expenses that the student recruiters incur during the week-long visits to high schools in California and the Southwest. Garcia's proposal would have sent 12 Chicano undergrads to 11 targeted areas (the Los Angeles area required two recruiters in Garcia's judgment). Byerly Hall balked; by the time the haggling ended, the budget had been nearly halved to $3600, and three areas--San Antonio, Tex., Denver, Colo., and San Diego, Calif.--entirely omitted from the scope of the recruitment effort...
...Gulf, Masirah sits right on the main sea lanes joining the Persian Gulf to the industrialized world--a perfect take off and refueling point only. Despite Congressional strictures against it the US has continued to construct a base on the strategically located Indian Ocean British island of Diego Garcia...
...March 1974, two men dragged Inez Garcia from her Soledad, Calif., apartment, and one of them raped her. That was what Mrs. Garcia later testified when she was tried for the murder of Miguel Jiminez, one of the alleged attackers. According to Garcia, less than an hour after the assault, she hunted down Jiminez and Luis Castillo. She shot Jiminez but Castillo got away. At the trial, she said defiantly: "I'm only sorry I missed Luis." Feminists made an issue of the case, which they hoped would establish a woman's right to retaliate violently against rape...