Word: munoz
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Australia's Mike Wenden surprised everyone by splashing to victory in both the 100-meter and 200-meter sprints. And Felipe Munoz, an unsung, 17-year-old prep-schooler from Mexico City, gave the host nation its first gold medal of the Games when he edged out Russia's world record holder, Vladimir Kosinsky, in the 200-meter breaststroke. Yet Debbie Meyer, a 16-year-old from Sacramento, Calif., singlehandedly balanced out those losses by winning the women's 200-meter, 400-meter and 800-meter freestyles, despite a strained ankle and a bad case...
...past, too, there was bitter friction among the racial minorities in California's central valley. If the Mexican-American was not as good as the white man, Munoz explains, at least he felt better than the black. But when the Farm Workers Union launched its attack on the growers--the core of Anglo economic power in central California--and when the union won several significant victories, the Mexican-Americans began to see their fight as a part of a larger struggle of the rich against the poor. "Now I know I'm a black man, too," says Munoz...
...sister AFL-CIO unions. In 1965, Chavez' National Farm Workers Association joined the AFL-CIO simply because it could not survive without large-scale financial aid. There is no question that a $5000 monthly contribution by the United Auto Workers has kept the Farm Workers above water. But, as Munoz puts it, many of the farmworkers feel that "the man who makes $50 a day cannot ever understand the man who makes...
...cooperation of the local AFL-CIO continues to be important to Munoz' boycott--farmworkers have been given an office and office supplies gratis in the AFL-CIO building downtown, and several locals make contributions fairly regularly. But misunderstandings are common. Several times this summer when local unions received no acknowledgment for their contributions, they wrote irate letters citing the farmworkers for lack of gratitude. But before this month, Munoz was often the only man in the office for long periods of time. And he could not acknowledge the contributions because he does not read or write...
...Nixon wins, and tries to block the United Farmworkers, Munoz says, there could be violence in the struggle which so far has been remarkably non-violent. More militant Mexican-American groups--particularly the followers of New Mexico firebrand Reyes Tijerina--have scored the farmworkers for sticking to peaceful, non-violent tactics. Chavez has insisted on non-violence, even calling off organization in areas where the threat of violence on the part of the growers seemed too high. But as Munoz puts it, "A donkey can only carry on so long before he starts kicking...