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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">In her own small way, Chavez was a part of the very sanctuary movement that
<BR>I'm sure she deplored. In her speech (delivered with her typical elitist
<BR>charm) Chavez spoke of sheltering the woman in question from the "turmoil"
<BR>in Guatemala. Of course, the main culprits behind the "turmoil" were not
<BR>mentioned, and doubtless Chavez thought she was saving the woman from
<BR>communist terror. In any event, Chavez did what the Right denounced
<BR>throughout the 80s. At least she let the woman clean her house.
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<BR>DP</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR>"At least she let the women pay clean her house." ???!!!
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<BR>This was a case of rank, intimate, one on one exploitation. Chavez, with a <BR>very substantial income, had a live-in housekeeper for two years, and paid <BR>her what she felt like when she felt like doing so. Zoe Baird -- who Chavez <BR>condemned in public on the McNeil Lehrer newshour for hiring an "illegal <BR>alien" at the very same time she was using this woman in this relationship -- <BR>paid a real salary, just no Social Security. It is bad enough that Chavez <BR>presents this all as an act of "charity"; do we have to compound it by <BR>talking about it as if her self-serving description is accurate?
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<BR>Leo Casey
<BR>United Federation of Teachers
<BR>260 Park Avenue South
<BR>New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)
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<BR>Power concedes nothing without a demand.
<BR>It never has, and it never will.
<BR>If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
<BR>Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who <BR>want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and <BR>lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
<BR><P ALIGN=CENTER>-- Frederick Douglass --
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