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...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, Rogelio Trujillo, 55, a burly Mexican-born gardener, argued for instruction in Spanish as a matter of ancestral right in a state once ruled by Mexico and Spain: "We didn't come from France, England or Russia. We were here already...
...building, and the board, after examining his references and his tax forms, can reject him without even troubling to give a reason. Supplicants before a co-op board--people who ordinarily may be contentious or even fearsome--accept this treatment without a peep. Now that characters like Somoza and Trujillo and Stroessner have passed from the scene, Americans who live in other cities may get the impression that the exercise of totally capricious and untrameled power is drying up in this hemisphere, but New Yorkers of a certain station understand that co-op boards will always be with them...
...TRUJILLO (D) SENATE CHALLENGER...
...Trujillo, a former mayor of Santa Fe, earned the daunting privilege of going up against the heavily favored incumbent, Pete Domenici, by winning 72% of the vote in the party primary. A moderate Democrat, he vows to make education his No. 1 priority, protect college loans and reinstate full funding for Head Start programs. A big reason to hope for victory: New Mexico voted for Clinton...
Such debates have their roots in the tenure of the previous Colombian President, Cesar Gaviria Trujillo. His credentials as a drug fighter are undisputed: he ordered the bloody and ultimately successful 17-month campaign against the Medellin cartel. Yet few would deny the vast, perhaps controlling influence of surviving drug lords. While the Medellin cowboys attempted reign by Uzi, shooting four presidential candidates in 1989, the Rodriguezes and fellow members of their cartel are known as the gentle dons. They rely on the quiet clout that a profit estimated by DEA at $7 billion a year can buy. The money...