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...killings were done by the right, though Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, a government critic, contends that slayings by the guerrillas are on the rise. One night last week, there was a knock at the door of a small house in the city of Santa Ana. Alida Fidelina Miranda de Escobar, 35, a kindergarten teacher, answered the door and was confronted by five masked gunmen. As her three young girls begged, "Don't shoot Mama!" Miranda was killed in a hail of bullets. Next night, 50 armed men searched the home of Salvador Rivera Hernandez, 39, in a working...
...Brazilian musical? The words evoke memories of Carmen Miranda, teeth gleaming, hips undulating, r's trilling, balancing a headdress of tropical fruit heavy enough to give the strongest Rio dock worker a hernia. That was '40s Hollywood, whose notion of Brazil was half picture postcard, half Daliesque daydream. Since then, a group of engaged intellectuals, collectively called cinema novo, have created a native awareness of the medium's power to teach and persuade. But before you can send a movie audience marching out to the barricades, you must get them into the theater. Don't cerebrate...
...Concilio Hispano helps find housing--and jobs--for the immigrants, most of whom are unskilled, Miranda says, adding that they are competing for jobs with skilled, English-speaking Americans. The organization does get jobs for many newcomers in the city's candy factories and on the assembly line at Kloss Video Corp., but the unemployment rate among Hispanics is about 17 percent...
Despite that bleak figure, Hispanic immigrants continue to settle in the city, at a rate of about 600 per year, Miranda says. The report on the Hispanic population shows that most immigrants come directly to Cambridge from their native countries, but that was not the case with earlier immigrants. They arrived in New York City, and gradually filtered into Connecticut and Springfield before settling in Boston or Cambridge...
...economic status of the immigrants is improving, Miranda says. In the last five years, the numbers of professional and paraprofessional immigrants has steadily grown. Many of them came to the universities to earn a graduate degree and then decided to stay, or they found opportunities more plentiful in a university community. For the professionals, adjusting to a new country is generally easier and more gradual...