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...world without war, with no Indo china, no other foreign place except the Riviera, no trace of foreign policy, and no civil rights or any other domestic problem. Wicker's Senator Hunt Anderson is said to have made his crusading reputation on the issue of East Coast migrant farm labor, but no word appears about labor unions, strikes, boy cotts or worker leadership...
...other Pulitzers were too easily overlooked. Emphatically not to be ignored were Robert Coles and Eudora Welty, the psychiatrist and the novelist, who had both written, at least in part, about the South: Coles with Volumes II and III of Children in Crisis, which describes his work with sharecroppers, migrant workers and ghetto children, and Welty with her short novel The Optimist's Daughter. Two younger writers were also among the prizewinners: Frances FitzGerald, 32, for Fire in the Lake, a study of American involvement in Viet Nam, and Jason Miller, 34, for his play about a middle-aged...
...statement reads in part, "The United Farm Workers are seeking to improve working and living conditions, and bring goals of human dignity into the lives of migrant farmworkers through a non-violent dedication to the principles of justice for all people...
Amando Munoz, 28, a wiry migrant worker from Texas, was picking tomatoes on a farm near Lake Worth, Fla., when four agents of the U.S. Immigration Service swooped down on the field in a search for illegal immigrants. They asked Munoz for his identity papers, but he had lost his billfold and so he had nothing to show them. "I told them I was from Harlingen, Texas," Munoz recalls, "but they just said, 'Get in the truck...
...traditional sees for U.S. cardinals, and Archbishops Medeiros and Manning were considered shoo-ins for the red hat. Medeiros, who was born Portuguese in the Azores, came to the U.S. at the age of 15. When he was Bishop of Brownsville, Texas, he often traveled with migrant farm workers and joined their battle for better wages. Since his accession in Boston in 1970, he has aligned himself with Boston's poor as well, assailing suburban Catholics for their failure to aid the inner city. A critic of the Viet Nam War, he condemned the bombing of Hanoi...