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Counter referred to movies such a as BlazingSaddles Roots II Saturday Night Fever andThe Godfather, and he blamed the some"Euro-Americans" and "para whites" for common useof the epithet...
...March 10 rally was surprising for its size, spirit and the message emblazoned on some banners: LA ESTADIDAD ES PARA LOS POBRES. Statehood for the poor? In Puerto Rico's triangulated politics, the statehood cause had been - monopolized by the upper class. A small faction of nationalists and leftists fought, occasionally with guns, for total independence. The rest of the population appeared content with commonwealth status, the pragmatic option in effect since 1952. As an American commonwealth, or "associated free state" in island usage, Puerto Rico has received enough benefits and tax concessions from Washington to make it rich...
Unfortunately, things go wrong, and word leaks out about the covert action. With the election months away, the administration panics and decides to cut its losses, covering up the operation and abandoning its para-military groups deep in the Columbian jungle. Sound really, really familiar...
...both the cities and the farmlands, the indignation of the moment is palpable. The Reagan Administration did not invent the poor, but it has largely ignored them. "We've dug deep pits in this country in the past eight years," says Tanya Tull, a Los Angeles housewife who founded Para Los Ninos, a family-service facility on Skid Row. "People are falling into them -- and we've taken away the ladders too." Reagan's policies, argues Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund, have "created a set of social problems that simply were not there...
...believe in ghosts and confuse mother and father figures have more than a couple of keys sticking in their keyboard. Goodwin's problem with slacks is perhaps symptomatic of a larger malady, something that I once heard Shirley MacLaine during a taping of the Mike Douglas Show call para-pneumoreactionary paralysis. I also have lingering suspicions that Goodwin's obsessive desire to paint LBJ as crazy hints at some problems closer to home. Lurching about accusing the president of being a cuckoo bird, Goodwin is not exactly a cheerful model of sanity. Maybe Johnson's toilet escapades were just imaginative...