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...next time whites try to illegally clear our land, perhaps we should get out and shoot the people in the bulldozers," contends Michael Benson, a 19-year-old Navajo and a freshman at Wesleyan University...
Only three of Morenci's nine Marines made it back alive. But Joe Sor-relman, 21, the Navajo who had first failed the aptitude test, Leroy Cisneros, 21, a Spanish-American, and Mike Cranford, 22, an Anglo, rarely see each other now. Sorrelman moved to Phoenix, and the other two, who live less than a mile apart, find that each meeting revives too many memories for them. Yet none of the three is really angry about the war. Cisneros survived 42 patrols in Viet Nam, mostly as the exposed point man, and saw his unit chewed up behind...
...object to the political involvement of a federally funded organization," said Senator George Murphy of California. In the same vein, Florida Senator Edward Gurney denounced OEO lawyers for "agitation." Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona accused them of "inciting trouble" on the Navajo reservation in the West...
...their ex-secretaries, ex-Jeep drivers and ex-valets-is the privilege of making public their diaries. The result, customarily, is to confront the reader with a literary chore roughly comparable to watching a three-hour slide show of his mother-in-law's latest trip through Navajo country...
...campaign by touring an Indian reservation, posing for photographers in a feathered headdress, then stowing the war bonnet in a closet. Arizona's Senator Barry Go Id water is a more astute politician than that. He proudly answers to the tribal name of Barry Sun Dust, also speaks Navajo with near-fluency. Just to cement his tribal connections, he has now hired as his Washington receptionist Yazzie Leonard, 20, a beautiful, full-blooded Navajo who majored in dramatic arts at Phoenix College. Barry interviewed Yazzie for more than an hour in her native tongue, then gave...