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  2. <title>
  3. (May  03, 1993) Died:Cesar Chavez
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  5. <history>
  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993               
  7. May  03, 1993  Tragedy in Waco                       
  8. </history>
  9. <article>
  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
  11. <hdr>
  12. MILESTONES, Page 25
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  14. <body>
  15. <p>     DIED. Cesar Chavez, 66, famed labor organizer; in San Luis,
  16. Arizona. Chavez became a national figure as president of the
  17. United Farm Workers in the late 1960s, when he began unionizing
  18. poorly paid Mexican migrant workers to raise them out of
  19. squalid working and living conditions. His successful boycotts
  20. against various grape growers and the producers of iceberg
  21. lettuce were widely accepted by Americans during the 1970s.
  22. Chavez grew up in a migrant family that lived in shacks,
  23. neglected his education and rested its livelihood on fluctuating
  24. markets in fruits and vegetables.
  25. </p>
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  27. </body>
  28. </article>
  29. </text>
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