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...Angeles. Philip Hawley, president of the Carter Hawley Hale retail store chain, cautions: "This is the only area in the U.S. that over the next 50 years could have a polarization into two distinct cultures, of the kind that brought about the Quebec situation in Canada." Professor Rodolfo Acuña of California State University at Northridge concurs. Says Acuña: "Talk of secession may come when there are shrinking economic resources and rising expectations among have-not Hispanics...
This week Chile's largest union, the 27,000-member National Conference of Copper Workers, will mark its discontent with an illegal 24-hour national strike. With unprecedented boldness, the union denounced the government's "weapons of fear and repression." Said President Rodolfo Seguel: "We are heading toward a dangerous point where the Chilean worker will not see any worse alternative to his present situation." Even the general's supporters fear that he has no answer. Says a former minister: "The country is in greater danger than when the Marxists were in power...
...Socialists were also beginning to change. A group of militant young firebrands, including González, who were not afraid to operate openly in the country began to challenge the old leadership, which consisted largely of members exiled in Europe and Latin America. During one confrontation, Socialist Leader Rodolfo Llopis was appalled to find González using his own name in politics. To placate Llopis, González adopted the nom de guerre Isidore. By 1972 González and his colleagues had wrested control of the party from the old guard. Two years later, he was elected secretary...
...been made public. Two of the victims, Michael Peter Hammer, 42, an agrarian reform specialist, and Lawyer Mark David Pearlman, 36, were in El Salvador on assignment for the American Institute for Free Labor Development, the AFL-CIO's Latin-American arm. The third victim, José Rodolfo Viera, 43, was both head of the farmworkers' union and president of the Salvadoran institute for Agrarian Transformation. The institute was empowered under 1980 laws to take land from the country's propertied oligarchy and redistribute it among Salvadoran peasants, a program fiercely resented by the ruling families...
...Salvador's national guard. They were apprehended, underwent lie-detector tests, confessed and were formally arrested. Both were at the Sheraton Hotel on the night of Jan. 3, 1981, serving as plain-clothes bodyguards for police officers visiting the hotel. One of those officers was Lieut. Rodolfo Isidro López Sibrian, 26, known as "Posorito," or "Little Match," for his naming red hair, fiery temper and anti-Communist views...