Word: paso
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legal and personal uncertainties. Last week a salute to veterans was held at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Such public celebrations serve only to intensify the anguish of M.I.A.wives, and some stayed away. One such wife, interviewed by TIME'S Joseph J Kane, is Peggie Duggan of El Paso...
Peggie Duggan, a handsome brunette of 34, lives with her two children in a large house atop Mount Franklin overlooking El Paso. It is elegantly furnished with Persian rugs, brass candlesticks and French Provincial chairs. On New Year's Eve in 1971 Peggie Duggan received an unexpected visit from an Air Force major with a grim message: the F-4D jet fighter flown by her husband, Major William Young Duggan, 38, had been shot down that same day over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. It was his second combat tour in Viet Nam, his 454th combat mission...
...brother Robert Scott, 12, is painfully reconciled to the possibility of his father's death. Their mother fills her days as a coordinator for the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia. She is also a volunteer publicist for community affairs in El Paso's public schools. "The only thing I can do is stay extremely busy in the daytime so that I just collapse at night, " she says. "I go to every dum-dum thing that comes along. I've been active before, but never with such hysteria. I cannot stand...
...bicycle, he could see perfectly well that his workers were happy and did not need a union. Did he not pay them well? Farah starts his workers at $1.70 an hour, 10? above the federal minimum wage. And what about his fringe benefits? Free bus service from downtown El Paso, a free medical clinic and a turkey for every employee at Christmas...
...demanding production quotas, such as sewing six belts per minute onto finished slacks when most say that it is possible to do only five. Bishop Metzger estimates that employees take home an average $69 per week, while unionized workers at the Levi-Strauss and Tex-Togs plants in El Paso net $102. That, says the bishop, "sounds more like a living wage...