Word: mexicanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Patrick Flores, 44. He tried to quit school twice but returned at his parents' urging. In 1970 Flores, son of a migrant worker, became the first Mexican American to be named a Roman Catholic bishop. One of nine children, he grew up near Houston, graduated from St. Mary's Seminary there, was ordained...
Flores closely identifies with his many Mexican-American parishioners. Raising more than $20,000 for Mexico's earthquake victims, Flores ignored Mexican President Luis Echeverría's declaration that no U.S. aid would be accepted, went to Mexico and personally distributed the funds...
...reporters working on the story from the beginning?and their publishers?declined to be cowed or bluffed. Thus the Post revealed in July 1972 that C.R.P. money had gone to one of the burglars. The New York Times reported that funds had been "laundered" through a Mexican lawyer. The Post disclosed that the break-in had been part of a larger intelligence-gathering effort and named those who controlled the program's funding. The Los Angeles Times got an exclusive interview with Alfred C. Baldwin, the ex-FBI agent who had monitored C.R.P.'s tap on Democratic telephones. TIME described...
Tucked away in a cramped but opulent cellar on Winthrop St., Casa Mexico is one of the best restaurants around. Go there for spicy Mexican food, candle-lit atmosphere, and fine service. Bring a lot of money...
Labor leaders charge that some Ex-Im loans have gone to foreign companies that export goods to the U.S., taking sales and jobs from domestic firms. AFL-CIO Lobbyist Ray Denison says Ex-Im has financed a Mexican factory that makes automobile springs that are shipped to the U.S. Recently, Ex-Im lent $75 million to the Bank of Tokyo to finance purchase by Japanese firms of 260,000 bales of U.S. cotton. Critics fear that that loan will worsen American inflation by raising the price of domestic cotton...