Word: vistas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...traffic keeps border patrols busy from Brownsville, Texas, to Chula Vista, Calif. Last week patrols near San Antonio intercepted two camper trucks, one containing 15 wetbacks, the other 17. All but a handful of the illegal immigrants are simply sent back across the border, but many return. They have become a special curse to the A.F.L.C.I.O. United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, which is waging an uphill struggle to organize migrant laborers. Illegal workers, the union charges, have been hired by union-hating farmers to break strikes. About 2,200 wetbacks have been arrested in the past six months in California...
...famous World War II cartoon by Bill Mauldin, an Army officer asked the same question as he gazed upon a spectacular vista...
Senate foes want to transfer the agency's most lauded program, Head Start, to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. HEW, which opposes such precipitous transfers, may also get VISTA, the Community Action Program's Upward Bound, and neighborhood health centers. Legal services may go to the Justice Department, which does not want them. The Senate also may give the Job Corps to the Labor Department...
...Corps, Neighborhood Youth Corps, Work-Study Program, Adult Basic Education, Rural Loan Program, Migrant Worker Assistance, Employment and Investment Incentives, Work Experience Program, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) and the Community Action Program, which set up Head Start, Upward Bound, Legal Services and Health Service Centers...
Whitten's group is conducting the screening with advice from members of an international relief organization which he would not name. They are giving top priority to volunteers with medical, Peace Corps, or VISTA experience, Whitten said...