Word: mexicanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paraquat is a toxic herbicide sprayed on Mexican marijuana to halt its growth. The City Council approved a marijuana testing proposal on Monday which would grant power to the city health commissioner, university and other research facilities to test for marijuana contaminated by paraquat...
Johnny Harris [April 17], a black convicted of murdering a white guard, was sentenced to death. The Houston policemen, whites, convicted of the negligent homicide of a Mexican American, Joe Campos Torres, got suspended sentences in a state court. Who is kidding whom about human rights...
...health professions center), white enrollment was low from the start−and it has dwindled further over the past two years. Perhaps the most significant problem was the flight of whites to the suburbs: in 1970 the Dallas school district was 58% white, 34% black and 8% Mexican American. Seven years later whites numbered only 35%. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People became so discouraged with the situation that it appealed for the plan to be reviewed. Claimed N.A.A.C.P. General Counsel Nathaniel Jones: "The Dallas plan had become something of a model for large urban school districts...
Harvard's Chicano population will celebrate Cinco De Mayo, a Mexican holiday analogous to the Fourth of July, this weekend with a three-day symposium commencing this evening and finishing with a fiesta Saturday night...
Laboratories throughout the West and Midwest, the regions where most Mexican grass is consumed, reported they were overwhelmed with requests to test marijuana samples. In Los Angeles, Disc Jockey Jim Ladd urged members of his post-midnight audience to telephone President Carter with their complaints about paraquat; within an hour, almost a thousand Southern California calls flooded into the White House. More than 5,000 marijuana samples were mailed to PharmChem laboratories in Palo Alto, Calif., where 22 new employees have been hired to keep up with the testing demand; last week the lab reported traces of paraquat...