Word: holding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...learn about her city's 1.3 million Puerto Ricans, New York Correspondent Mary Cronin roamed from the South Bronx to that hallowed immigrant turf, the Lower East Side. Says she: "All the people were warm and brave, full of a joy of life, full of poetry, determined to hold on to their own rich culture in spite of incredible obstacles...
Linowitz regards the assignment as an engrossing challenge, even though Government bookshelves already hold countless copies of previous reports on hunger. Said he: "I told the President that I didn't want to be chairman of a commission that was going to produce another dust catcher. We are at a time in human history where we know what we have to know and have the resources to put an end to mass hunger by the end of this century...
...Governor: New Mexico's Jerry Apodaca, and he cannot succeed himself when his term expires in January. Mexican-American ballots nailed down Texas' 26 electoral votes for Jimmy Carter in 1976, and he reciprocated by appointing more Hispanics to federal positions than any of his predecessors. But, while they hold 112 of 1,201 presidentially assigned posts, none are at the Cabinet level. Hispanics hold only 3.4% of jobs in the federal bureaucracy, while blacks hold 16%, and the Hispanic proportion of federal jobholders has inched up only .7% in the past ten years. The same pattern holds true...
...Cubans have their own complaints. They point out that only two Hispanics hold elective offices in Miami: Mayor Maurice Ferré, a Puerto Rican, and City Commissioner Manolo Reboso, a Cuban. Cubans have no representatives in the Florida legislature or in the U.S. Congress. Latins hold only 20% of the city government jobs in Miami and only 4.9% of the top bureaucratic posts. Much of the blame for that rests with the Cubans: only 47% of them are American citizens. Many still see themselves, apparently, as anti-Communist absentees from their island home...
...regents of the University of California (she replaced Mrs. William Randolph Hearst). A chicano, Mario Obledo, 46, is Brown's secretary of health and welfare, the highest ranking Mexican-American official in the state government. But while Hispanics make up 15.8% of California's population, they hold only 2% of the state's 20,000 elective posts, including only six seats of 120 in the California legislature. With less than 8% of the state's population, blacks boast eight seats. There are no chicanos on the Los Angeles city council or the Los Angeles County board...