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...Duval duchy began in 1911 when three Mexican Americans were gunned down in San Diego by a gang of Anglos opposed to the town's incorporation under Chicano control. Ethnic conflict reached a high pitch. Alone among the area's "Americans" to champion the Mexicans' po sition was George's father Archie Parr, a small-time rancher. For years thereafter, the Mexicans - who still make up 90% of the population of Duval and surrounding counties - honored Parr as their cacique. Parr saw to it that roads were built, local government jobs were manufactured, and bail money...
...down." One of the oldest comics, Little Orphan Annie, first drawn by Harold Gray in 1924, is also one of the most topical strips. Gray died in 1968; the strips that run today in 300 papers were all drawn by him during the Depression of the 1930s. "S'po sin' we are pretty hard up right now," Annie recently told her companion Ginger, a flower vendor, in a rerun of a Nov. 19, 1936 panel. "What of it?" Annie continues. "We know doggoned well we're not goin' to stay that...
...summer as well as winter. This part of the country, still one of the remotest areas of the world, is about as hard to traverse today as it was for the early Tibetans on their way to the Valley of Nepal. Now as then there are, as Li Po wrote, "Myriad peaks and more valleys and nowhere a road...
...unsettled, changing nature of the society. Everyone is po'ed at everyone else and everything. While the scholars would tend to take a longer view and be less concerned than say the workers, they are not immune...
...have been tried and sentenced to death; 162 others have been given prison sentences ranging from three years to life. Last week alone, Park's military courts sentenced 62 opponents of the regime to stiff prison terms for plotting to overthrow the government. Among them: former President Yun Po Sun, 76, Roman Catholic Bishop Daniel Tji Hak Soun, 53, and the Rev. Park Hyung Kyoo, 51, deeply respected pastor of Seoul's Cheil Presbyterian Church. All accepted the summary sentences with moving dignity. Said Yun: "I ask you one question. Is it a crime to help democracy...