Rights Group Hears Intimidation Charge At Civil Rights Hearing
At the U S Commission on Civil Rights hearing in Chapel Auditorium Our Lady of the Lake College sixteen witnesses including school officials and students testified on intimidation claims by federal agents and the poverty faced by Mexican Americans. Speakers cited FBI pressure tied to a CBS program and criticized welfare and food stamp systems while noting harsh living conditions of farm workers from Edcouch Texas and families paying the toll of seasonal migrations.
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Don Heath
U.S. Commission On Civil Rights
Chapel Auditorium
Our Lady of the Lake College
Ralph Ruiz
Archdiocese of
San Antonio
FBI
CBS
Stnger
America
Southwest
Luis Chavez
South Texas
Edcouch
Texas Valley
Chavez
Olivia Sanchez Chavez
Jose Luis
Julio
Mirlala Villarreal
Michigan
Education Probe Highlights Mexican American School Issues
Testimony at the U.S. Civil Rights Commission session in San Antonio covered education in nine districts. Key speakers included Antonio Alvarez and James Sutton, with support from W D Ulgdon Frank Pall and Dr. Manuel Ramirez III. Advocates urged bilingual education and curriculum revisions to reflect Mexican American heritage.
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U.S. Commission On Civil Rights
Chapel Auditorium
Our Lady of the Lake College
Pam
San Antonio
Antonio
G. Alvarez
Cooper Junior High School
James Sutton
Lanier High
W. D. Ulgdon
Hawthorne Junior
Frank C. Pall
Bowie High School
el Paso
Manuel Ramirez III
Rice University
Houston
Josue Gonzalez
Harold C. Brantley
United Consolidated School District
Webb County
Civil Rights Investigators Confer With San Antonio ISD
A Possible Discrimination Panel and Hitt Center Office of Civil Rights investigators met Monday with San Antonio Independent School District Superintendent Harald Hitt in a continuing study of possible racial discrimination in the district. The civil rights team resumed a roughly two week stay in San Antonio after an initial November survey of the district.
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Office of Civil Rights
San Antonio
An Guard Unit To Get Citation
The Air Force Outstanding Unit Award will be presented to Me 149th Fighter Group Texas Air National Guard at a ceremony at Kelly Air Force Base and a parade followed by an open house in a new $325000 building. Louis Mathis of the civil rights office commented that HEW focuses on discriminatory practices not just racial balance. failure to comply with changes could risk more than $2 million in federal funds for SAISD. The team includes Jerald Hard Carlos F. Vela Walter Patterson Gordon Rubin Cynthia Brown. findings expected in January.
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Air Force
Me 149Th Fighter Group
Texas Air National Guard
Kelly Air Force Base
Louis Mathis
Civil Rights Office
HEW
Mathis
SAISD
Studeots
Jerald Hard
Dallas
Carlos F. Vela
Ward
Walter Patterson
Washington D.C
Gordon Rubin
Cynthia Brown
Bond Made in Road Accident Case
A San Antonio man, 30s, was free on bond Tuesday after surrendering on charges of failure to stop and render aid in the December 3 highway death of 72 year old W Lawis Larralde. A witness told police the truck driver who struck Larralde stepped out, looked around, then drove away. Larralde was walking on U S Highway 8 South inside the city limits when killed.
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San Antonio
W Lawis Larralde
Rdinsburg
Larralde
Groveton Doctor Pleads Innocent in Five Church Cases
Freddie Brant known as a doct or in Groveton Texas has pleaded innocent to the last of five charges tied to his estate medical practice. He faces forgery and practicing medicine without a license as preliminary hearings proceed next Monday. Brant, once a laboratory technician, treated patients for six months after obtaining medical knowledge in a Louisiana prison acting under a Tennessee physician’s name.
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Groveton, Tex
Freddie Brant
Texas
Brant
Texas Rangers
Dallas
Trinity
Kaufman Counties
Tennessee
Danger on Both Sides German Extremists Draw Blast
German observers warn of rising extremism from left and right as violence increases. Gunter Grass criticizes both sides while noting leftist groups gain traction in universities. The Siegen clash signals polarization in West Germany in 1988, with potential threats to democracy and public order.
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Berlin
UPI
Grass
Siegenat
Aland
National Democra
Federal
NPD
Germany
Weimar Repub-democracy
TAT Trayeereie
Camine
Gunter Gras
Frankfurters
Allgemeine Zeitung
Siegens
Ofj
Niations
Comnwu
Heratic Republic
Adal
Hitler
Fefifat
Werner Stein
West Berlin
Department For Science and Art
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Ruiz
Washington
Joseph
Scully
House Appropriations Committee
Special Duty
San Antonin
John A. Hannah
Michigan State University
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Jack D. Forbes
Far West Laboratory For Educational Research and Development
Berkeley
Calif
Forbes
Jack Forbes
U.S. Commission On Civil Fights
Hector Garcia
Frankie Freeman
Robert Rankin
Staif Phota
Richard J. Dockery
Directory
Southwest Region
NAACB
Ike
Tap
George Sanchez
University of Texas
Sanchez
Anza
Bond
Groveton
Louisiana
Trinity County Dist. Atty
Gus Lanier
Johnson
NASA
James Webb
Apollo
Ing
Walter Cunningham
Donn Eisele
Walter Shiva Jr
Willam Anders
Frank Borman
James Lovelley
Charles Lindbergh
Webb
Numphrey
Austria
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Dat
South Vietnam
Saigon
Cromies
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