Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Santa Barbara, the soap-opera resort by the sea, is no cauldron of ethnic conflict. Founded by Spanish friars in the 18th century, it has evolved into a complacent retirement community where Latinos, a third of the population, work mostly in low-wage jobs, waiting tables and tending lawns. They rarely challenge the Anglo establishment. But last week, as the school board was preparing to scrap the city's 25-year-old bilingual-education program, 400 Latino families called a three-day strike, boycotting schools and setting up an alternative academy in a community center. At a boisterous public hearing...
...crowd of 800 in the scruffy junior high school auditorium overwhelmingly agreed with him and made itself heard by waving banners, stomping feet and chanting slogans in Spanish. But school-board members, frustrated by Latinos' poor academic performance, said it was time to try something different. They voted unanimously to replace bilingual education with a program of English immersion for immigrants...
...armed bomb found at the shack, bomb-making parts and chemicals, carbon copies of the Unabomber's manifesto and taunting letters to his victims and the news media. There are also thousands of pages of diaries and journals that Kaczynski kept for more than two decades. Written in English, Spanish and sometimes code (which was deciphered using a key found in the cabin), the journals are filled with the methodical observations of a man driven to kill his enemies by building the perfect bomb. Prosecutors describe the entries as nothing less than a long, detailed confession to every bomb...
Indeed. You're back in the car headed east to Talpa, a favorite Mexican joint in West Los Angeles where on warm summer nights you have sat with a cold beer and a Cuban (cigar, not companion) and watched the Dodgers on Spanish-language television. But you walk in now and, sure enough, owner Andres Martinez has posted no-smoking signs. The law is the law, he says dolefully, and it's the bar owner, not the customer, who will pay the fines--starting at $100 and going as high as $7,000--if the butt police appear...
...successfully blown the dust off history that it reads like tomorrow's front page. At any rate, the hero is a respectable Arizona cowboy and bank robber named Ben Tyler, who is caught running a freighter into Havana with saddle horses on the manifest and weapons for anti-Spanish guerrillas hidden in the hold...