Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a game mentality among the H-R Chicanos, as there has been among The Angry Chicanos in the southwest. Their activism is difficult to take seriously, as is their commitment to social justice and the ethics of intellectual honesty. They want not so much to have that change as to pray publicly, a la the pharisees for it. They are the honest-to-goodness New Great American Song and Dance Men, er, Persons...
...that's not to say there aren't problems, bad ones. I've reported on the Chicano movement in the southwest on and off the last seven years, and the gains are slow and frustrating. Institutions, by their very nature, move slowly at best...
...wants (seven miles from Silver Bay, v. a site 20 miles distant proposed by the state), it is threatening to close down its Silver Bay plant -and in effect the town itself. The fight has engulfed neighboring communities. Citizens of Duluth (pop. 100,000), 60 miles to the southwest, are particularly bitter because more than three years ago the asbestos-like fibers-believed to be cancer-producing -were detected in the city's drinking water. Duluth now gets asbestos-free drinking water from a new $7 million filtration plant, largely financed by the Federal Government, but the animosity against...
...storm-tossed waters off Massachusetts last week, 7.6 million gal. of oil slid slowly seaward. In the Delaware River, southwest of Philadelphia, 134,000 more gal. of deadly goo spread toward rich tidal marshes. In Los Angeles, the wreck of a blast-shattered tanker still lay smoldering at its berth. Suddenly, on East Coast and West, the U.S. was undergoing an ordeal...
...Clinton, Ill., a farming hamlet 150 miles southwest of Chicago, a reporter for the weekly DeWitt County Observer (circ. 3,150) got a tip last October on the biggest story of her life. In a five-hour taped interview, a source spilled out a tale of corruption and brutality involving County Sheriff Keith V. Long, 57, whose gruff manner and thick downstate drawl seem right out of In the Heat of the Night. Trouble was, Reporter Charlene Hettinger, 39, and a colleague, Edith Brady, 22, kept running into brick walls as they tried to check the story out. The local...