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...other a Randolph Scott western of the genre "in which cows got massacred and the good guys feasted on steaks." Nobody comes, and then the theater is bombed; the blast kills the owner and blows all the clothes off his daughter. Her rescuer appears in the person of Raza Hyder, a Muslim captain in the Indian army. After the partition of the subcontinent, Hyder marries the young woman and takes her "west to the new, moth-nibbled land of God," to Pakistan...
...death struggle that ensues between these two characters is shimmeringly based on recent Pakistani history. Iskander resembles Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the charismatic civilian leader who was deposed in 1977 and later executed by General Ziaul-Haq, Pakistan's current President and a fraternal twin of the fictional Raza Hyder. Similarly, the bloody civil war that led to the transformation of East Pakistan into independent Bangladesh in 1971 is mirrored here: "The final defeat of the western forces, which led to the reconstitution of the East Wing nation as and an international autonomous basket (that's a case ..." laugh...
...even less Hollywood-like vein, funds for the project had already been obtained by the National Council of La Raza from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The Council had funds to produce "something which would counteract the negative portrayal of Hispanics on television and in film," said project coordinator Guadalupe Saavedra. But in order to insure universal appeal. Saavedra continues. "We had to resist the temptation to exploit the good versus bad. Anglo versus Mexican aspects of the story...
...this issue represents an underlying University attitude that discourages minorities from asserting their identifies as members of a Third World community. "Third World events during freshman week ate important to us, but only as part of a larger problem," Maria G. Carmona '84, a member of the Chicano group RAZA, said yesterday...
...groups share one overriding tactic, it is probably just educating the wider public about their particular viewpoint in an attempt to dispell myths about the groups. La Raza, the Chicano group, held a series of cultural celebrations last year, primarily to introduce the Harvard community to Chicano culture, Patricia Corrales '84, a member of the group's steering committee, says. ABLE is working on a slide and video presentation to be shown in the Science Center this fall, dispelling myths about the disabled perpetuated in the popular culture. And the GSA again last year held Gay and Lesbian Awareness...