Word: ricans
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ILLICH HAS a fascinating background. Austrian by birth, he studied history, philosophy and theology in Rome, Salzburg and Vienna. He served as an assistant pastor in a Puerto Rican parish in New York City for five years and then as a monsignor and vice-rector of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico for another four years. He was dismissed from the latter post in 1960 after a controversy arose over his role in the island's birth control program. He then helped found the Intercultural Documentation Center in Cuernavace, Mexico, where he wrote Celebration of Awareness, Deschooling Society and Tools...
...Princeton groups said their university's plan, which will be submitted HEW this summer, does not provide for the hiring of Puerto Rican or chicano faculty or administrators...
...investigation began last week after two chicano and Puerto Rican organizations at Princeton filed a complaint with the New York office of HEW charging that Princeton is not committed to minority recruitment...
...letter said the investigation was necessary because there are no Puerto Rican or chicano faculty members or administrators, cutbacks were made this year in black admissions, and decreases were made in funds for recruitment of Puerto Rican and chicano students...
Cullinan got to Vesco through mutual acquaintances among Costa Rican politicians. The result was a series of conversations in Vesco's opulent retreat outside the capital, San Jose. Throughout one talk, a small handgun rested on a table near the casually dressed Vesco. During another, Vesco unburdened his contempt for American democracy ("goddam mob rule") and sympathy for Nixon's fallen men ("Take John Mitchell, that poor s.o.b., or Agnew ... These people cannot afford to pay what I'm paying in legal fees-well over $1 million a year...