of six mi l l ion, has the highest rate of death by starvation after Bangladesh. The poor can only do seasonal work on the coffee plantations. They live on $1 35 a year. Picking up the gun is just a sign of loss of patience. They're tired of watching their five children die one by one. It's not ideology. I've met few Salvadorans who can explain the fundamentals of dialectical materialism, marxistleninism, or capitalism. Who can define these things in the United States? It's hunger, anger, lack of hope that makes an ordinary person pick up a gun. Alonso .Hi e has been here off and on since 1 972, at first just wandering. Then he fled his country. He is an artist; . therefore, he was suspect. He likes it in America but yes he would certainly go back. He is waiting for the guerrillas to win so that he can return. He has a wife and daughter somewhere in the Northwest. The wife is with another man. He says, "You see, I had to go through that here too." When his girlfriend comes to him she cannot go to his room because of the hotel rule. I ask what does he do if he is stopped by police. I try not to be, he says. I walk within the crosswalk and I always wait for the light. Once I was arrested and given a fine. The fine has my name on it, so now I can use that for identification. It is all I have to identify myself to them. There are problems, he says, with the Salvadorans here on the streets. There are three to four hundred in Seattle; as many as 5,000 in the state. "My brothers and I have many, many problems." I mention that one-third of the restaurant .workers in Washington, D.C. , reportedly are Salvadorans. "Yes," he says, "we are all over the country. We have many problems, many problems here." Luis L. uis is telling about how he has to live now. He steals like the other street people, then sells things the way Rosario and Raul went to sell the radio. They have no choice. I ask if he is afraid of being caught and turned over to Immigration. No, he says, the police only warn him. They are not interested just now in turning them over to Immigration. He says he has a place to stay tonight, if he can make it to the last bus, then sleep on a floor. Usually he doesn't have this. Many of the refugees spend the night walking, then in daylight sleep i n the park beside a bottle of wine. As we walk away from the park a guard is talking to another man. Luis and Alonso don't look at him. We walk along the edge of the locked booths of Pike Place Market. Luis quickens his pace and walks ahead of us. Then, turning, he shakes my hand, says, "Adios," walks fast again, then stops suddenly, turns, scoops up a small red cube of water • melon from the street, and laughs. Michael Daley is a Port Townsend writer whose most recent book is The Straits. RESTAU RANT Unique and Exotic Chinese cuisine specializing in spicy dishes from Hunan and Szechuan Provinces Moderately Priced. 5 1 5 S.W. Broadway 224-8063 Morgan's Alley Bui lding Prupt:trhng after 6:00p.m. City Center Parking 10th & IPmhmgton VISIT OU� NEW�TAURANT HUNANGAP.DEN • 1 1814 N.E. &THSt • &EU.fVIJE. WA. (206) 451 -3595 PRESENTING: PARCHMAN FARM PORTLAND'S BEST PIZZA A PORTLANDJAZZ CLUB OUR THICK-CRUST, SICILIAN-STYLE PIZZA HAS BEEN MET WITH RAVE REVIEWS SINCE WE INTRODUCED IT A FEW MONTHS AGO. WE ARE PROUD TO OFFER THIS UNIQUE PIZZATO PORTLAND. TRY IT SOON TO SEE JUST HOW GOOD PIZZA CAN BE. f(,J:, f µcu.Urrt.J..-.. 1 204 SE Clay St. 235..783 1 Food service until : 12:30 pm weekdays 1:30 weekendsLIVE JAZZ FRIDAY and SATURDAY � - - - - - - - - - - - - � - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Serving Super Sandwiches Ifyou-can fmd a better East Side sandwich ... eat it. 65 17 SE Foster Rd. 774-7975 StephenFarris/Proprietor There isanold placewithanewface in N.W. Portland. On the comer of N.W. 21st and Lovejoy ■ 227-4270 Portl and Commun i ty Col lege WORKSHOPS DO YOU HATE MATH? SMALL BUSINESS No tests, No pressures How To De Healthy and Just good, easy leamlng HappyWhile Running Your Own Small Business APRIL 6, 1 984: MAY 4, 1 984: Arithmetic Review Small Business Administration Fractions, decimals and percents Sylvania Campus Southeast Campus APRI L 1 3, 1 984: MAY 25, 1 984: Arithmetic & Algebra Review Small Business Marketing Southeast Campus Rock Creek Campus Al l Workshops· 8 AM ro 5 PM Additional Information: !i21 tuition 1 credit Coll ARTHUR LIND. instructor 232-8400 Registration: 777-8020 --, -= -------------- I ii I I I I I • I I I I
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