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Former Nun Has Become Democrats' Angry Latina They'll Do It Every Time MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR Valley Ready Mix Concrete Inc. was placed on the 1978 Harlingen United Fund's Hall of Fame roster for having contributed more than $1 ,000 to the drive which is now under way. Here Jimmy Cocke, left, president of the firm, presents the contribution to Bob Shepard, co-chairman of the fund campaign. (Star Photo) WASHINGTON The day after Ms inauguration. Jimmy Carter telephoned Camwia Lacayo her home in Los Angeles It was 8 a in Washington.

5 a on the Weal Coast Within the hour. Carter had to send his choices at party leaders to the Democratic National Committee, which would go through the motions of electing the new national party officers Carter wanted M-year-oW Miss Lacayo. a Hispanic and a former nun who had worked in the campaign, for a top party job The new president's call roused her from her sleep Carter told her she was his choice for chair Then he turned the phone over to his assistant. Hamilton Jordan Miss Lacayo recalls a desire to say no. She says she had sworn off political jobs She had worked for Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradlez and sometimes found herself uncomfortable there If she disagreed with Bradley policies.

she was tom between loyalty to her beliefs loyalty to her boss That happens to political appointees In the language of the day. they are coopted So Jordan had some persuading to do As Mas Ijrayo recalls the conversation with Jordan He said, a real chance to do some thinjss for vour folks. CarmeU She said. Well. I'm not going tobeatoken He said.

"Well, it not a paid position'' She said. "I don't care about that Can 1 be an active vice He said. Yes She said. 1m going to take you at your word. Hamilton You know me He said The President wan She said, know me I'm just not the house Mexican' type making the choice and the onus is on you.

You're asking me to do this and I'm accepting thanks to them, the freedom they fought for will never fall! DO YOUR FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS TODAY! TROPICAL SAVINGS LOAN THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK PLAZA NATIONAL BANK HARLINGEN STATE BANK THE HARLINGEN NATIONAL BANK ThiststhestoryofapokiUaan who is far removed from the usual stereotype of the cigarsmoking hack Miss Licayo is in politics to see what she can get out of it for her people. Americans of Hispantcbackground She works not so much for the party as through the party for her cause. Carter and Jordan picked a fighter in Miss When she was a young nun in West Oakland, Calif. ihe Black Panthers did not like the Sisters of Social Service invading their turf. told us to get out or they'd burn us she says had to stand my ground Nuns and Panthers learned to work together She was mstru mental in wheedling federal fun ds for a laVunit subsidized housing complei for the elderly It was named after her Miss Lacayo also waves within the Catholic church She found the pnests had methods to make their views known, but nuns were sort of subjugated to men who came around and kept them in their place She organised a "sisters' and.

at 27, was elected to speak for the nuns before the bishop Sent to Rome for a year's study and "to become a good she found that the university imposed higher aca demic standards on Americans than those from other countries So she protested "I took on quite a few very well known professors and she says "It was just like going to court 1 presen ted my case half in Latin, half in Italian, half in Spanish and half in English Miss lacayo, taken seriously ill, returned to this country, recovered, left the order and took a job for a large medical management corporation, but didn't like that Enroute to a teaching post in Colombia, she stopped in Nicaragua and was caught in the Christmas. 1972, earthquake She escaped with an injured foot, but what she saw burned into her mind, "The country is in misery," she says "There is the elite few five per cent who are extremely wealthy, and I mean jet-set wealthy: these are Gucci bag carriers and Gucci shoe wearers. But the rest are miserably poor Miss Lacayos father was from a blueblood Nicaraguan family, who immigrated to Los Angeles and became a clothing manufacturer when his inheritance was spent She studied with Anglos in the convent, worked with Macks in Oakland, with Europeans in Rome. "We were raised with love for our heritage, but we had gotten Americanized." she says. "In this culture, the more you are the more acceptable you are." Back home in 1974.

she went to work for Bradley She felt Hispanics were short-changed by the city government but "1 had to be a Bradley loyalist; I worked for him. Though Mexican-Americans constituted a big part of the city, they had no representative on the city council. In part, she blames the Latinos' self-destructiveness She tells a wry story to illustrate the point: "A man in Texas is catching crabs He leaves to get more bait A boy calls after him, Better put a lid on that bucket or crawl out' No. says the man, These are Mexican crabs; if one gets to the top the others will pull him Miss Lacayo left Bradley to found the National Association for Spanish-Speaking Elderly It speaks for all Hispanics Mexican Americans, Cuban- Americans and Puerto Ricans With a staff of 20 and offices in Miami, New York, Washington, Albuquerque, N.M., and Los Angeles, the association evaluates whether cities, counties and states are giving a fair share of federal funds to Hispanic communities and yelps if they are not. Its technicians help draft proposals for federal funds Miss Lacayo is president and executive director As president and executive director, she croases the country so often she jokes that she is acquainted with all the chickens served on transcontinental flights In Washington, she has been been battling to get more Latinos on the Democratic National Committee made sure one more Hispanic got on the executive she says "I did some trading off.

I went to labor and said, vote for your labor I NOTICK! Due to the number of Advertisements daily it is impossible for us to correct the errors after the irst day unless notified by the individual or company placing the advertisement. The Valley Morning Star reserves the right to edit all copy and will be responsible only for the first time in which an ad runs incorrectly. Revival Of Anarchism Occurring In Spain MADRID, Spain like a specter from the past, anarchism in Spam is making a comeback "This is gong to cause a lot of disappointment to those people who thought we were dead. anarchist labor leader Juan Gomez Casas told a crowd of 25,000 who turned out for the fir st anarchist rally in Spam in SB years And a black banner reading "No god. No state No boss" showed that the anarchists stood right where they were when the late Francisco Franco crushed the powerful movement at the end of Spain bloody 193S-M civil war Before the war, anarchist National Confederation of Labor was the biggest labor union in southern Europe, with more than one mi I Ion mem bers In 1936 anarchist militia spearheaded the resistance to the nght wing military uprising and some cities, like Bar celona, defeated the regular troops in pitched street battles With the 1975 death of Franco came a gradual end to the repression of the anarchists Now youngsters can mail 35 pesetas (40 centsi and get a poster of anarchist hero and civil war general Buenaventura Durruti with his slogan "renounce everything except victory Spanish anarchists, or "libertarians" as they like to call themselves, basically are followers of the 19th-century Russian revolutionary Michael Bakunin Restating a theme that has existed in one form or another for centimes, they believe that government is not only unnecessary but harmful, and that through goodwill and education people can live in perfect har mony Specifically anarchists seek the disappearance or destruction of: state in al I its orms capitalism and private property all forms and procedures of exploitation and oppression of man by man The renaissance of anarchism in Spain is marked by a resurgence of the Confederation The CNT actually practices anarchchsyndicalism.

or anarchism applied to trade unionism Gomez Casas, a 56-year-old writer and translator who spent 14 years in a Franco prison, says the CNTs membership has grown six-fold this year and stands at 120,000 in a country with a work force of 13 million "The CNT is on the move again because we shun compromise with the top and maintain a constant dialogue with the base, the grass roots," Gomez Casas said in an interview at the union's rather shabby down gal if you vote for my Hispanic She scrapped with the New Yorkers on the 353-member national committee She wanted one of their at-large seats to go to a Puerto Rican "I took on the Democratic she says of that incident are pretty strong cats; these are guys who have been around 100 years She ts trying to use the party machinery to boost some of the 100 Hispanic state legislators as candidates for Congress She is pressing for a White House conference on bi lingual education. Asked about legislation on illegal aliens, she hesitates, then plunges in. Carter "opened the she says, but "Congress will have to tear that bill She feels the bill stigmatizes Mexican-Americans. If employers are penalized for hiring illegal aliens, they hire anyone with a Spanish accent town offices We don't play the game and we are involved in practically every labor conflict hotels, shoe industry movie houses, construction Our fate is tied up with freedom We are defending marginal he said The most visible aspect of the libertarian comeback is its youthful membership When the CNT staged a four day tarian Fair" in Barcelona in July, a half million supporters turned out and the event often was dominated by young per sons who stripped off their clothes, made love in the grass listened to rock music and smoked marijuana They also spent a lot of time debating homosexuality "We re overwhelmed by the number of people, especially young people who are asking for membership cards." said Barcelona CNT member Andres Edo He said it is natural that the movement evolve and change and said, "what counts is the power of imagination to invent new ways of life However, 72-yearold move ment veteran Federica Montse ny is less optimistic about anar chism new popularity among Spain's youth Mrs Montseny served as minister of health in the last government of the republic, the only woman in Spanish history to ever hold a cabinet portfolio She returned to Spam last April after 38 years un exile in Fran ce, "Within 10 years, many of these kids who today are wildcat anarchists will become bosses of the family she said For Gomez Casas, girls who take off their clothes at a libertarian rally are a passing phenomenon it is the result of 40 years ei paternalistic education of youth and erf a current phase of society around the world, he said During the first months of the civil war, tue anarchists and other revolutionary parties held control in Barcelona, the Mediterranean coast capital of Catalonia British writer George Orwell, who fought on the side of the republic, wrote of Barcelona at that period: Human beings were trying to behave as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine In the barber shops were anarchist notices solemnly explaining that baiters were no longer slaves In the streets were colored posters appealing to prostitutes to stop being How did Spain come to be the country where anarchism has historically had the most popularity and success'' Canadian 1 i i a I writer George Woodcock said it is because Spain is "a land at once conservative ad revolutionary. living by tradition and given to temperamental Anarchism over leapt "the merely social and political until in many parts of Spain it resembled the spiritually liberating form of a new according to Woodcock Anarchists have long suffered an image problem often being viewed as merely bomb- throwing terrorists But libertarians argue that their violence always sprang from official repression and persecution of their movement "Anarchism has been defamed, deformed and 3landered with equal unanimity by conservatives and by communists," Mrs Montseny said.

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