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Another standout in the book is Ruben Martinez' autobiographical "La Placita." Although it appears under the section labelled "God," this essay embraces topics as varied as family history, gang warfare and the Latino immigrant population of L.A. Martinez speaks from his dead grandparents' house, where he contemplates the "strewn shards of [his] identity." The racial and cultural identity of this journalist of Salvadoran ancestry proves as multi-faceted as the city in which he grew up. Memories of Watergate and the Flintstones figure alongside stories of the Chicano movement and assassinated Salvadoran friends in this personal history...
...Martinez' essay includes what may be the book's most telling observation on multicultualism in a section on the L.A. Festival, a recent civic celebration which glorified the racial and ethnic make-up of the city in a slightly Disneyesque fashion. He writes...
...last week ordered a service-wide stand-down so that all personnel can devote a full day to sexual-harassment training. And on Capitol Hill four women recounted tales of sexual harassment to a Senate panel. Jacqueline Ortiz, an Army reservist, told of being "forcibly sodomized" by Sergeant David Martinez while serving in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm. When she reported the attack to her superiors, she was ignored. Last week the Army belatedly charged Martinez with sexual assault...
Bush's network of family and family retainers also piled on. Presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Perot's "paranoia knows no bounds," while drug czar Bob Martinez labeled Perot "not fit to be President." Casting off her grandmotherly pose, Barbara Bush called Perot's behavior "bizarre" and traced his ire at her husband to the fact that Bush had spurned a job offer from Perot 25 years ago. By the end of the week, Vice President Dan Quayle was referring to the diminutive Texan as "Inspector Perot...
While these lessons have impressed lawmakers from New York to California, they have failed to budge the Bush Administration, which continues to maintain that needle programs promote drug abuse. "When you use drugs intravenously, that clearly shows you're not concerned about your health," says Bob Martinez, the nation's "drug czar." The lines snaking out of New Haven's van would seem to prove him wrong...