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Sara O. Garcia, a Mexican-American and former school teacher who is now studying part-time at the Harvard School of Education, is trying to gain greater recognition for bilingual education. Garcia, who is endorsed by the CCA, has made that program the focus of her campaign, though she maintains she is not a single-issue candidate...
...comment. "Shoot them before they land," suggested one caller. More often, Anglos simply avoid contact with Hispanics. Bob Lansing, who runs a collection agency in Beverly Hills, grew up in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles when it was predominantly Jewish. Now that it has become a Mexican-American neighborhood, he tries to stay as far away as possible, even though he frequently vacations in Mexico and speaks some Spanish. Says Lansing of Boyle Heights: "I think it is pretty dangerous, a real barrio with a lot of gang activity...
...months ago, a mere handful of people were showing up for Saturday- night home services conducted by Jorge Alvarado, a Mexican-American upholsterer and part-time evangelist in Houston. But soon so many people were coming that Alvarado had to move his congregation to a small commercial building, and then to a large house, where some 80 worshipers now regularly attend his meetings. These two-hour gatherings feature testimonies, rousing hymns accompanied by electric guitar, and high-energy sermons ("The Lord gives strength to the weak...
...similar phenomena may have begun where Chicano students are concerned. For the previous five years Harvard had had very stable Chicano acceptance and matriculation rates. (Sandoval labeled this phenomena a "tacit quota system" to limit the number of Mexican-American students a figure respectable to other prestigious East Coast schools.) Last year saw a record number, more than half of thoseadmitted, however, choose to go elsewhere...
...lifelong citizen of Dallas and as a Mexican-American, I feel I must respond to the distorted attack leveled upon my hometown by your "Unconventional Warfare" column of September 19. In his vehement efforts to criticize the Reagan Administration and the Republican Party, Mark Feinberg has slandered the city of Dallas and its residents, without reason or evidence...