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East Los Angeles is almost a separate city within Los Angeles' borders. Sliced by freeways and studded with factories, it is home to 110,000 Mexican Americans who speak Spanish, celebrate the Cinco de Mayo* and prefer tamales to hot dogs. "East Los" also has more than it share of vandalism, burglary and car thefts, in large part committed by tough Chicano gangs that mark their territory with special graffitti called placas. Yet in the past two years, there has been a remarkable change in the barrio. Reports Los Angeles Police Captain George Morrison: "Officers on foot patrol...
...news conference asked him to say something in Spanish, Nixon first explained through an interpreter that his high-school Spanish was badly rusted; then he drew a burst of sympathetic laughter from the Cubans by saying good-naturedly: "Buenos días. Muchas gracias. Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis." Upon landing in Mexico City from Havana, Nixon got off to another ice-breaking start by reminding the Mexicans that he had visited their country before. "My wife and I first came here on our honeymoon 15 years ago," he said, adding wistfully that in those happy days the whole...
...Cinco de Mayo-the Fifth of May-and all Mexico was celebrating the victory won 86 years ago when General Zaragoza's troops drove the glittering legions of Emperor Napoleon III down the slopes of Puebla...
...having fired his general and studied maps of Puebla himself, sent 30,000 men to take the place (now renamed Puebla de Zaragoza), drive Juárez to the Rio Grande border, and install Maximilian as Mexico's emperor. But Mexicans had learned the meaning of the Cinco de Mayo. "You have fought the first soldiers of the day," said a patriot to the ragged victors of Puebla, "and you have been the first to conquer them...
...never gave up. After the U.S. Civil War ended and the French had marched out of Mexico, Emperor Maximilian was dethroned and shot. Thereafter, Mexico, free and independent, celebrated the Cinco de Mayo as its national holiday...