Word: ramona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, acting on a tip, immigration agents raided Ramona's Mexican Food Products Company, a food processing firm in suburban Los Angeles. According to federal officials, Ramona's is "an indiscriminate employer of illegal aliens." Five times in the last four years the company had been raided, and each time agents had turned up illegal aliens. They were not disappointed the sixth time. After half a dozen immigration men burst through the door, the plant's largely female work force shrieked and started scattering. Eventually, 36 of them were cornered, most of them in the women...
Died. L. Wolf Gilbert, 83, composer of Ramona, The Peanut Vendor, Green Eyes, Lily of the Valley, Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee and dozens more; of a stroke; in Los Angeles...