Word: mendoza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From weak-kneed Terrence Ascher, seeking his father's approval, to Rafael Mendoza, who is tired of America's condescending attitude towards his people, to Marine Eric Gustafson, smuggly certain that only U.S. intervention can save the incompetent Contras, Brinkley's characters are intended to reveal the psychological factors behind a government scandal...
Massachusetts and federal courts grant board protection to the carrying of placards: "It is beyond dispute that communications by signs and posters is pure speech." Nyer v. Munoz-Mendoza, 385 Mass. 184. It is our conviction that this is clearly a First Amendment issue: the students' constitutional right to freedom of expression was denied...
...irony of hardworking blue-collar families drinking from contaminated wells or lugging five-gallon cans for miles to their kitchens is most galling, of course, to the have-nots themselves. "We keep hearing promises -- water pretty soon, pretty soon," laments Celia Mendoza, who homesteaded here with her husband and two young daughters four years ago. "But most of it has turned out to be a bunch of lies...
...claims of family, the primal unit of Hispanic life. The Mexican poet Octavio Paz recently described it. "In the North American ethic" he wrote, "the center is the individual; in Hispanic morals the true protagonist is the family." It shows in the work of a photographer like Tony Mendoza. He sees in his extended Cuban family what it is that sometimes makes * them comic, but he also knows that their fate is his, their picture...
...meet again this week. Nonetheless, Pantasma seems more weighed down by its bloody past than it is buoyed by any belief that the battles may finally be over. "The people have no confidence in either the government or the contras. They have been oppressed by both," says Padre Victor Mendoza, the town's Roman Catholic priest. "They hope, but they don't really dare to believe...