Word: hispanicization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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At Manhattan's federal courthouse last week, Raisa Nemikin, 27, secretary at the Episcopal Church's national offices, read a statement: "The FBI and U.S. government are attempting to destroy the Hispanic community and the Puerto Rican independence movement. By cooperating, the church has destroyed whatever credibility and...
The grand jury is investigating the F.A.L.N., a radical Puerto Rican independence group that claims responsibility for 49 U.S. bombings. At the Chicago apartment of the only known F.A.L.N. member, Carlos Alberto Torres, 24, FBI agents last November found 211 sticks of dynamite and 100 lbs. of explosive chemicals. They...
When agents turned up at Episcopal headquarters, Bishop Milton Wood, chief aide to Presiding Bishop John Allin, let them examine commission files and test church typewriters. Later the two bishops provided other material, figuring it was public information. Meanwhile the grand jury summoned Nemikin and her boss, Hispanic Commission Director...
In his first novel, Douglas Day, author of a 1974 prizewinning biography of Malcolm Lowry, rings his hero through a number of old narrative changes. Resales is the Hispanic Odys seus on his arduous journey homeward.
Deserters, on the other hand, are heavily black and Hispanic, poor, and less-educated. They are also younger: many were drafted at eighteen. Many applied for conscientious objector status, but found it nearly impossible to secure once inside the military. Their only option was to desert or to protest--often...