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...investigation began last week after two chicano and Puerto Rican organizations at Princeton filed a complaint with the New York office of HEW charging that Princeton is not committed to minority recruitment...
...letter said the investigation was necessary because there are no Puerto Rican or chicano faculty members or administrators, cutbacks were made this year in black admissions, and decreases were made in funds for recruitment of Puerto Rican and chicano students...
After fleeing prosecution on charges of masterminding a massive mutual-funds swindle and attempting to obstruct justice, Financier Robert Vesco has made himself about as accessible to newsmen as the Abominable Snowman. Thus it surprised the veteran journalists who had been trying to corner Vesco in his Costa Rican refuge that the first substantial interview with him appeared in the April 5 issue of the fledgling biweekly New Times-and was written by a novice, Neil Cullinan, a political science professor at Fort Valley State College in Georgia. Cullinan's coup was quickly matched by Washington Post Reporter Laurence...
Cullinan got to Vesco through mutual acquaintances among Costa Rican politicians. The result was a series of conversations in Vesco's opulent retreat outside the capital, San Jose. Throughout one talk, a small handgun rested on a table near the casually dressed Vesco. During another, Vesco unburdened his contempt for American democracy ("goddam mob rule") and sympathy for Nixon's fallen men ("Take John Mitchell, that poor s.o.b., or Agnew ... These people cannot afford to pay what I'm paying in legal fees-well over $1 million a year...
Using material from the black poets and playwrights like Melvin Van Peebles and Ed Bullins, the Bedford group flourished where other groups had failed because, says Steward, "they used to visit with plays that just didn't relate. The great majority of prisoners are black and Puerto Rican ghetto citizens-they want a play about what they left and what they are going back...