Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...costly social programs as national health insurance and greater aid to the cities. Trying to keep such groups in line, Vice President Walter Mondale went to Minnesota, Missouri and Pennsylvania last week to assure doubting Democrats that Jimmy Carter will remain true to the traditions of his party by helping "those in American society who without our help will never have a chance for the fullness of American life...
Thurmond's age has become an unspoken issue of the campaign. But the trim, fit Senator, who can do as many push-ups and sit-ups as his years (75), effectively defuses the issue with the help of his 31-year-old wife Nancy, a former Miss South Carolina. All summer she barnstormed the state in a van dubbed the Strom-Trek with their four young children, ages two to seven, who wear T shirts emblazoned VOTE FOR MY DADDY...
...racial edginess back to Los Angeles, where the Watts ghetto riots of 1965 are still remembered with fear. Says retired Los Angeles Police Captain Rudy de Leon: "There is more outward prejudice now against Mexican people than there has ever been." Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler did not help when he noted in an interview that his paper did not court the city's black and Hispanic readership because "it's not their kind of newspaper. It's too big. It's too stuffy, if you will. It's too complicated...
Like other Hispanic groups, chicanos strongly support the California law providing that students who speak little or no English should receive bilingual education if their parents want them to. Last year only half of the 120,000 students in Los Angeles schools who were eligible for that help were getting it. One reason: a mere 5.5% of the city's 30,000 public school teachers are Hispanic...
...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...