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...Hartmire sees it, the plight of the grape pickers cries out to heaven. They are mostly illiterate Mexicans and Filipinos. Among them, for example, is Marcos Munoz, who lives in a squalid shack that he calls "something you would not let a dog enter." Another, Manuel Rivera, 52, the father of seven, works ten hours a day when he is not on strike, for the minimum wage of $1.25 an hour. He is a grim man whose only hope is for his children; he feels that the vineyard owners "make an animal out of me. They might as well...
...Department of Justice launched an investigation of Hommel's affairs. Most ly, the investigators were interested in discovering just what, if anything, went on between Hommel and an acquaintance, Spanish Financier Julio Munoz...
...many foreign operators who have moved in to exploit Switzerland's free-and-easy financial codes, Munoz specialized in buying into Swiss banks and bringing to them huge sums of capital fleeing from Latin America and Spain. In 1962 he landed quite a client: Ramfis Trujillo, playboy son of the assassinated Dominican despot. Though at least one big Swiss bank had found Trujillo's millions too hot to handle, Munoz channeled the funds into two banks that he controlled, the Swiss Savings & Credit Bank of St. Gallen and the Geneva Commerce & Credit Bank. To invest the Trujillo hoard...
Down to Earth. Munoz pumped the Trujillo money, as well as other funds that he borrowed from his own banks, into highflying real estate schemes.' When European property markets sagged, the roof caved in. Late in April, Munoz' two Swiss banks applied for-and got-government permission to close down operations for a year. In May, his bank in Rome also was given a one-year moratorium. One of Munoz' cronies, Hermann Hug, president of the St. Gallen bank and a director of the Rome bank, was arrested on charges of swindling. Last week the Swiss police...
...committee vote ignored a 1953 General Assembly ruling that Puerto Rico is a self-governing commonwealth "in free association" with the U.S. and thus not a proper subject for U.N. territorial studies. Stormed Governor Luis Munoz Marin: "It is inconceivable that a responsible international body could place itself in the untenable position of advocating a political status for a people who have categorically rejected it in numerous elections." Munoz pointed out that Puerto Rico's minuscule Independence Party mustered less than 5% (22,000 out of 800,000) of the vote in the Nov. 3 elections-not even enough...