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Such a clime, and such a corner of the world, is likely to produce a special type of ruler, and in Plaquemines it did: Leander Perez, cigar-chomping, white-suited boss of the parish for almost half a century. He ruled like an arrogant and protective plantation owner, although he preferred sowing oil leases to crops. He fought federal intervention with Faulknerian tenacity, a battle that began over control of oil reserves and evolved into a crusade against "forced integration," which he saw as the plot of an international Communist conspiracy. Taunted Governor Earl Long: "What are you going...
...almost ten years since Perez died. His old home, "Promised Land," serves as one of the parish's white, private academies, a testament to his failure to prevent integration of the public and parochial schools. Blacks, who constitute 25% of Plaquemines' 25,000 people, now hold many parish jobs; there are even black sheriffs deputies. And the wood shanty bars that dot the highways serve all comers...
...worked as an architect during the Franco years, but Jose Maria Perez never felt that he had found the right blueprint for life. "I was in an interior exile," he grumbles. But when Spain moved into a more liberal era, Perez, under the pseudonym "Peridis," finally found his true calling: cartoonist. In Madrid's daily newspaper El Pais he regularly lampoons the pillars of the once untouchable Establishment-from King Carlos to Pope Paul. Some of Peridis' subjects-including both Premier Adolfo Suarez and Communist Party Chief Santiago Carillo-have even written prefaces to the cartoonist...
...criminals in our society do draw the line at some point; the dehumanizing effects of incarceration do not completely erase some sense of what is right and what is wrong, however loose the criteria may be. In no one is Pinero's point better epitomized than in Juan (Jose Perez), a stocky Puerto Rican who stands alone as the only inmate to rise to Short Eye's defense before the other prisoners and to lend him an ear, if admittedly not the most sympathetic one. The fact that Juan and the other prisoners strongly react to Short Eyes dramatizes Pinero...
Only moments later Adolpho Perez forged the final 4-2 score with a header angled into the left bottom corner of the net off a cross from Jim Burns...