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Last week the Department of Commerce, prompted by ecologists, decreed that U.S. fishermen may no longer hunt whales. As sometimes happens, it was a gesture of conservationist piety made too late. Only three whaling ships remain in the U.S.: they are operated by the Del Monte Fishing Co. of San...
EVEN its defenders admit that El Monte is an eyesore, a blur of suburban sprawl 14 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Its boundaries meander without obvious aim or purpose. Tiny houses, usually stucco and rarely worth more than $30,000, are jumbled together with tacky businesses along its dismal streets...
There are no blacks in El Monte: in fact, blacks call it "whitey's town." The prejudice against blacks is unspoken, but it is well understood. During a public meeting, a former city employee spoke of their absence in the community; he was ignored by city officials and later...
For the Mexican-Americans, El Monte is a step up out of the East Los Angeles barrio. Explains Richard Mendez, 31: "We moved here from East Los Angeles because it is a better neighborhood. Life is better here. The schools are cleaner. There is not so much trouble." For others...
For those who grew up in El Monte, the present scene is all a bit unreal. Police Chief Orval Davis, a member of the force since 1938, remembers that there were only 3,600 residents and six policemen in El Monte when he was a rookie. (There are 77 cops...