Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chicago Correspondent Roberto Suro took advantage of his own Hispanic background. Entering a ramshackle tavern in the city's largest Mexican neighborhood, he was at first rebuffed by a bartender. Says Suro: "When I told him my name and began to speak Spanish, he warmed up and even encouraged his customers to tell me about their experiences...
Political activism is gradually?very gradually?beginning to bring Hispanics together. In Los Angeles, Latin neighborhood associations have forced city authorities to provide better services, and pressured the state government to investigate auto insurers on charges of setting unreasonable rates. In Texas, Hispanics have organized civil rights marches reminiscent of the '60s, often to protest police brutality...
...Neighborhood groups have opposed the plant on grounds of its expected environmental impact--especially the amount of air pollution it will create...
Firemen fought blazes in the neighborhood for two hours before putting them out. The authorities also had to fight scavengers. Police arrested 28 people, mostly youngsters, for refusing to follow orders to leave the area. Some of them were caught stealing watches and wallets from the fallen bodies...
...repairs; others range from false advertising to ill-fitting hairpieces. One woman complained of a backache that came from wearing a bra supposed to increase her bust size. No complaint is too small: the unit once got back a 200 soda-bottle deposit for a small boy from his neighborhood grocer...