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Earline inhabits a very different world from Laura Calhoun's. Born in Memphis to a Negro mother and Puerto Rican father, she has been on drugs for nine years, heroin for five. She has been raped twice; the second time she shot her attacker to death. A week before Christmas in 1968, she stabbed her mother, who had abandoned her years before. Earline has been arrested repeatedly-for forgery, robbery, manslaughter. Now she is in Chicago's Gateway House, a treatment center for drug addicts, trying to kick heroin...
...also stated that "A good university, which could exist in a radically different society, would serve the kind of people represented by the speakers" -a construction worker, an Indian,members of the Bread and Roses secretarial group, a representative from the Puerto Rican Independence Movement, and a representative of the United Electrical Workers...
Fist Street was a very small, private, libertarian elementary school on New York's Lower East Side. It was run on a private grant at far less cost per child than of the public schools. The children were black, white, and Puerto-Rican, all from lower-income families in the area. A few were on the verge of expulsion from the public school system before they came to First Street; others were already out, and faced youth prisons if they couldn't make it there. At least one didn't make it at First Street-but most of the children...
Although less than 10 per cent of the New York Police are black or Puerto Rican, Fink said, "efforts are being made" to recruit more minority policemen. He cited new training programs and the use of Spanish-speaking recruiters...
Divided Road. A onetime M.I.T. student whose heroes range from Bolivar and Lincoln to Don Quixote, Don Pepe has led his country twice before. In 1948, when the Costa Rican army and Communist-led commandos sought to prevent a newly elected government from assuming power, Don Pepe routed them with a ragtag 700-man army. He took control at the head of a junta, and in the next 18 months he dissolved the army, expanded social-welfare programs, gave women the vote and nationalized the banks. Then, by prior agreement, he stepped aside in favor of the man whose election...