Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pinochet's defiance produced a bizarre pattern of dancing and rioting in the streets. Police fired tear gas and water cannons at some antigovernment protesters in two days of clashes that left dozens wounded and two people dead. More than 20 foreign journalists were among the injured. On Friday hundreds of thousands of Chileans celebrated the no vote with a joyous rally in Santiago. Singing and swaying to music by popular groups, they called on Pinochet to step down...
Ceasar is the paid organizer for a church-based citizens group that is struggling to bring drinking water to thousands of impoverished families along the Mexican border. As such, she mobilizes working-class Hispanics who live in unregulated subdivisions called colonias that sprawl across miles of cotton fields in El Paso's Lower Rio Grande Valley...
Sister wants to pack Socorro's La Purisima Church parish hall to the rafters to send a message to state officials that no one in the 350 ragtag subdivisions will rest until pipes are laid and water is flowing. Already, the El Paso Interreligious Sponsoring Organization (EPISO), for which she works, has made an imprint. Its nagging pressure since 1983 has snared endorsements, a formal commitment of water and a pledge for help in getting a delivery system of mains. But the Government has yet to produce one drop, or funds to dig a single trench, and for many, life...
...irony of hardworking blue-collar families drinking from contaminated wells or lugging five-gallon cans for miles to their kitchens is most galling, of course, to the have-nots themselves. "We keep hearing promises -- water pretty soon, pretty soon," laments Celia Mendoza, who homesteaded here with her husband and two young daughters four years ago. "But most of it has turned out to be a bunch of lies...
...slice of the American dream. Since the '60s, low-income families from El Paso's barrio, 15 miles to the northwest, have been moving here, lured by the open spaces and the hype of half-acre lots for as little as $1,000 down and $100 a month. Water, they were assured, would be forthcoming. And it was, until 1979, when the influx became such an avalanche that El Paso's public utility put an abrupt halt to further water hookups...