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...Legal Defense and Educational Fund, financed by the Ford Foundation. "We are about ten years behind the Negroes, and we must catch up," says Dr. Daniel Valdes, a Denver behavioral scientist. "But I think we will do it without extreme violence." Lawyer Donald Pacheco puts the plight of the Mexican American more bluntly: "We're the 'nigger' of ten years...
...destroyed seven stores and damaged six, were presumably ignited to protest the New York Governor's visit to Argentina this week on his fourth round of "listen and learn" trips. To head off demonstrations when Rocky arrives, the government arrested more than 100 students. > In Uruguay, President Jorge Pacheco Areco found himself in a showdown fight with striking unions, which blocked his efforts to bring the country back from the edge of bankruptcy. President Pacheco's response was to declare a limited state of siege under which strikes are outlawed...
Since last fall, Uruguay has experienced more than a score of similar incidents-casino and bank robberies, weapons thefts, as well as the kidnaping and later release of a high government official who was also a friend and adviser of President Jorge Pacheco Areco. In virtually every case, the blame has fallen on the Tupamaros, an extreme left-wing organization that also calls itself the National Liberation Movement. Since it operates in a country in which more than four-fifths of the population lives in cities and towns, it has dedicated itself to urban guerrilla warfare and eventual takeover...
...after retirement at the age of 55, Uruguay, once Latin America's richest nation, has seen its economy slide downhill for more than a decade. In 1967 alone, the rate of inflation was 135%, and the government ran short of retirement funds. Tough, recent measures taken by Pacheco Areco have slowed inflation to just over 6% for the past nine months, but at the highly unpopular cost of wage and price controls and curbs on strikes. The Tupamaros have not been able to persuade Uruguay's powerful Moscow-oriented labor unions, with their 240,000 members, to make...
...Self-immolation. Surprisingly, a poll released last week showed that 77% of the population supports Pacheco's actions, and he is showing no signs of letting up. "Our goals must be containment of expenses, austerity by everybody," he says. "The self-immolation of a society because of passivity is a philosophy that we will never accept. I'm in the ring and I'm fighting as hard...