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...individual Americans to some neatly labeled lowest common denominator of fear, status, greed or need. Coles, after all, is a Harvard psychiatrist. He has been seen in the company of notebook and tape recorder. For more than a decade he has studied and written voluminously about troubled children, blacks, migrant workers-all subjects that are now ritually lamented in near-faceless collectivity as "problems...
...Vatican aide cited approvingly both the U.S. activities of the Berrigan brothers (provided they did not resort to violent methods) and the widespread campaign to improve living conditions for migrant workers. He also pointed to the dedication of Archbishop Helder Pessōa Cāmara of Recife to Brazil's poor, and the work of Peruvian Bishop Luis Barbarén, "the slum bishop," who devotes his time to the slum dwellers around Lima. One common denominator of such forthright action is a degree of risk, as Bishop Barbarén found out last week; Peruvian authorities arrested...
...head of the CRLA, Reynoso has been concerned specifically with the problems of migrant farm workers, including legal assistance. "The farm workers never had the use of lawyers. Our organization has begun to provide that," he said. "But just when we are trying to get the farm workers the basic ammonites of life we get into trouble. And the complaints seem to come up only when it involves poor people," he added...
Reynoso will discuss the CRLA as well as the socio-economic condition of migrant farm workers in California, most of whom are Chicanos...
...ethnic groups have combined with another new kind of migrant to change Evanston from a Republican Carcassonne into a city that Nixon barely carried in 1968, and Adlai Stevenson III won last November. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, younger, activist families have moved in, attracted by Evanston's lack of resemblance to a caricature suburb. Nancy Sheck moved with her husband, a printing executive, and two young sons from Chicago's South Side to Evanston four years ago. "It is the only suburb that allows for individuality," she says. "There aren't the same pressures for conformity...