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...that Republicans continue to accuse illegal immigrants, mostly starving Mexicans, Guatemalans and Salvadorenians, of "terrorism"? -Oscar Galvan Lopez, Avondale, Ariz.I don't know that I've ever heard that kind of accusation. I have certainly never said that illegal immigrants from Mexico are in away way suspects of terrorist activities. But security at the border is a national security issue. It has nothing to do with trying to stop a particular ethnic group. It has everything to do with trying to control the flow of people into your country...
Where does that leave charters' biggest boosters, poor and inner-city parents who can't always take time off from work to go school shopping? Two years ago, Josefina Galvan, a Mexican immigrant who works the graveyard shift as a nurse's aide, enrolled her four kids in Paramount Academy on word of mouth alone. They lasted one year and learned so little that all four repeated their grades at their new school--another charter that came highly recommended but is no award winner. "Even if the charter schools are terrible, I wouldn't put my kids back in public...
...sons. He spent the next three years rubbing shoulders with the muralist Diego Rivera, dodging the postrevolutionary turmoil and making pictures under the Mexican sun that specifies every object it falls upon. Among them were a series of vivid head shots, like his startling portrait of Manuel Hernandez Galvan, 1924, that use the subjects' plain vitality to confound the impassivity one expects from monumental figures. The Mexican portraits show that Weston had absorbed the principles delivered to him by Alfred Stieglitz, words that Weston later summarized as a "maximum of detail with a maximum of simplification...
Nonetheless Mexico's Defense Minister, General Felix Galvan Lopez, in May took the extraordinary step of publicly denying that a military coup was contemplated. Said Galvan...
...Galvan's lecture, "Reflections of an Intellectual and Politician," was received with great enthusiasm by a primarily Hispanic audience...