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Such are the questions facing the California Supreme Court in the case of Miguel Vega Andrade, 44, a Mexican-American whose troubles began when he injured his back, lost his job, and was separated from his wife. Andrade regularly paid $120 out of his $200-a-month medical compensation to help support his four minor children. After two years, Andrade's compensation ceased. Since then, he has been basically supported by his common-law wife, Elma Martello, by whom he has a three-year-old daughter...
...discussing the role of the vote in the assault on segregation, the students quickly linked the goals of the southern freedom movement to those of labor and disamament. While talking of nonviolence in Mississippi, they spoke of the strikes and layoffs in Hazard, Ky., and the Mexican-American political victories in Crystal City, Texas...
...Light a Rap? The battle goes back to June, when a car driven by Charles N. Morris, assistant district attorney of Eddy County, rammed into a car carrying a Mexican-American farm worker named Gregorio Molina, his wife, and eight of their children. The parents and three of the children were killed. The other five children were injured. Morris admitted that he was boozed up at the time of the accident and pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. With his usual courtroom briskness, Judge Tackett took less than two hours to hear the case. Morris was ordered...
Born in Laredo, with a population that was 85% Mexican-American, Mann grew up speaking both English and a border-town pidgin Spanish called Tex-Mex. His father was a lawyer who "laid down very stern standards about ethics and the law in our house." The family code was backed by the austere beliefs of the Southern Baptist Church ("We didn't even play cards"). In high school, young Mann was chosen "most popular boy" in his senior year, scored well enough in his studies (all A's and B's), but is best remembered...
Playing together one morning in a park, they were heard by a representative of the Mexican-American Cultural Institute which arranges cultural exchanges. She came up and asked them to tour Mexico themselves next summer...