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...stillness was broken by deep grunts as silhouettes appeared scaling a nearby fence. The silhouettes advanced, and so did the Marines, blasting away with blanks. Finally a Spanish-speaking sergeant understood the frightened shouts and curses of the ambushed platoon. In fact, it was a band of Mexican migrant workers trying to enter the country illegally for the harvest season. They had made their way close to 80 miles north of the border...
...Well, President Nixon finally made it to Mainland China. Now I wonder how long it will be before he visits Harlem, Watts, Appalachia, the migrant labor camps or an Indian reservation...
...years ago the Arizona Republic gave its women's staff a free hand to change content, and the page began doing more serious articles. Among them were series on migrant farm workers and rest homes for the aged, and a moving story on efforts to help a catatonic child. According to Jeanne Tro Williams, who became women's editor last July, the experiment aroused too much opposition. Though the Republic still competently covers Indian life and culture, "We have started to come back from deep-think," says Williams now. "As a relief from hard news we are trying...
Living for extended periods as the guest of migrant workers, black and white urban and rural poor, sharecrop farmers, mountaineers, and working-class whites taught Coles to respect their stature as dignified and resilient persons confronting the common dilemma of working out a suitable means of facing life's cruelties, inconsistencies, and ambiguities. He studies not only their problems, but their lives, in order to communicate both "what is strong as well as weak, what is sound as well as what ails, what may be struggling for expression in a person's life as well as what is lacking...
...evaluated and helped improve the medical project of the Mississippi Headstart Program for the OEO. His testimony before the National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor and the Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor influenced critical Congressional funding for the War on Poverty in the late 1960's. The migrant health plan Congress enacted was partly his work. After the 1968 Farmington, Va., mine disaster, Coles acted as intermediary to channel assistance to the families of stricken miners...