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...million lines of advertising last year, has ballooned the paper to an average of 111 pages daily, vs. 96 for the New York Times. Each edition is chockablock with lovingly crafted explorations, of subjects ranging from the education of a TV anchor to the buying patterns of Hispanic migrant workers, that jump confusingly from page to page after page. At its best, the Times can be as informative and interpretive as any daily in the English language. At its worst, it seems to reflect a mistaken notion that readers want to spend all day with...
...flames." All too often, the threats are carried out. In West Berlin, a group of teen-age German thugs, screaming abuse at foreigners, attacked a Turkish shop last November, roughing up the owner and his family and ransacking the rooms. In Heidelberg, scores of right-wing fanatics assaulted migrant workers and paraded through the city shouting neo-Nazi slogans. Police arrested...
...Civil Rights Division's most recent triumph was the conviction last month of four men in federal court in Tampa, Fla., for conspiracy to hold farm workers in involuntary servitude. Willie Warren Sr., an Orlando labor contractor who hired migrant crews for farmers in f Florida and North Carolina, was sentenced to ten years in federal prison. Willie Warren Jr., who worked for his father, was given 15 years. Another son, Richard, and an associate each got five years. A third son, Dennis, got 20 years in a North Carolina slavery case involving a potato-field worker who died...
Williams, a leading spokesman for migrant workers in Florida, charges that federal authorities took strong action against the Warrens only after the death of the farm worker in North Carolina. Indeed, Labor Department records show that it began receiving complaints about Willie Warren Sr.'s treatment of migrants as early as 1973, but took little action...
...Hispanics" are Mexicans or Mexican Americans, probably 2.1 million in all. And they are different in a critical respect from all the other ethnic arrivals: the immigrant from Mexico comes from near by to what was, until 1848, Mexican national territory. He arrives feeling as much like a migrant as an immigrant, not an illegal alien but a reconquistador...