Word: raul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Raul S. Manglapus, President...
Babbitt-the state's former attorney general who stumbled into the governorship under a provision of the state constitution last year after Governor Raul Castro took an ambassador's post and his successor, State Secretary Wesley Bolin, died in office-shrugged off the company's reaction. Said Babbitt, who has since won election in his own right: "There is an extremely serious situation down there, and the management of that company has proven its inability to take care of the situation...
...flight to Warsaw, Historian Raul Hilberg (The Destruction of the European Jews) regarded the few survivors among the travelers...
...sure, Bolles' death and the ensuing investigation by the newly-formed Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. has resulted in some positive, if limited, improvements in Arizona. The state's governor, Raul Castro, although ostensibly for other reasons, resigned after the IRE team uncovered consistent misbehavior on Castro's part--including charges of using state police guards as servants, pressuring state officials to give building contracts to political cronies, and befriending and accepting campaign contributions from reputed mobsters and the millionaire liquor dealer suspected ot engineering Bolles's murder. In contrast, the state's new governor, 40-year-old Bruce Babbitt...
...Hispanics' very numbers guarantee that they will play an increasingly important role in shaping the nation's politics and policies. Just as black power was a reality of the 1960s, so the quest for latino power may well become a political watchword of the decade ahead. Predicts Raul Yzaguirre, director of the National Council of La Raza (The Race), an umbrella group of Hispanic-American organizations: "The 1980s will be the decade of the Hispanics...