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  2. <title>
  3. Dec. 17, 1990: Funny, You Don't Look Spanish
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  5. <history>
  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990               
  7. Dec. 17, 1990  The Sleep Gap                         
  8. </history>
  9. <article>
  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
  11. <hdr>
  12. GRAPEVINE, Page 25
  13. Funny, You Don't Look Spanish
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  15. <body>
  16. <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by David E. Thigpen
  17. </p>
  18. <p>     Ethnicity is in at the San Francisco fire department these
  19. days. The reason: fears that a program to promote minorities
  20. will hold back those classified as Caucasian. City officials
  21. report a wave of petitioners claiming long-lost ethnic
  22. identities. One 16-year veteran, previously listed as Italian,
  23. documented Spanish ancestry to qualify as Hispanic. Some
  24. minority fire fighters, meanwhile, are complaining that the
  25. bureaucracy has changed their classifications to "white." San
  26. Francisco's civil service commission says it will consider
  27. publicizing ethnic classifications so employees can challenge
  28. colleagues suspected of making shady heritage claims.
  29. </p>
  30. </body>
  31. </article>
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