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Philadelphia: Tough-Guy Style A federal grand jury last week indicted three Philadelphia policemen for violating the civil rights of Machinist Edgardo Ortiz, 26. One night last June, according to eyewitnesses, the cops rapped on Ortiz's glass front door and demanded to question him about a report of a family disturbance. When Ortiz angrily protested, they smashed through the glass and pummeled him with fists and clubs in the presence of his wife and three-year-old daughter. Next, neighbors reported, the cops tossed Ortiz through a window, handcuffed him and threw him into a police van. They...
...Nelson Ortiz, 23, just finished a three-year volunteer hitch in the Army-infantry, heavy weapons-and was heading home to see his family in the western town of Afiasco. His plans? "I'm going back to college, going to study sociology." Independence...
Ordinary people convey a sense of confidence that things will work out eventually, that they still have opportunities to grow. Ortiz has uncles in Chicago, parents in Añasco, friends in San Juan. "Maybe some day it will be Chicago for me," he says...
After 25 years in the States, he and his wife have simply decided that "it is time to go back." The continental connection gives people like Nelson Ortiz and Rafael Cruz-as well as Rafael Hernández and Carlos Romero-time and choices...
...seashore community of Cape May, N.J. Her mother-in-law Virginia, 60, is also enrolled because she rents out two summer cottages there. "It's impossible to get a plumber on July 4," she explains, "and the toilets are always stopped up on holidays." Another student, Pat Ortiz, enrolled because she has knocked seven holes in her bedroom wall trying to put up shelves. "I'm all thumbs, and my husband is all feet," she says. In the next classroom, about 50 women taking "Mastering the Art of Investing" are studying the intricacies of Treasury notes, municipal bonds...