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...idea. "A National Celebration of the Outdoors," modeled on the recommendations of a presidential commission, was to be a week of activities focusing attention on conservation in local communities throughout the country. But last April Mott's boss, Interior Secretary Donald Hodel, chewed out the pair and demanded they abandon their efforts. Soon after, Mott and Fraser received a memorandum from Interior's legal office telling them they were under investigation and should retain outside legal counsel. "Hodel humiliated Mott," says one department official...
Democrats had vowed to abandon the folly of faction before, but these promises were like sending the Battling Bickersons to marriage counseling. But 1988 was different, in part, because the primaries symbolized the passing of the generational torch; neither Dukakis nor any of his rivals had been elected to major political office before 1974. The Democratic sweep in that post- Watergate year was a watershed, bringing to power a talented crop of young reformers -- including Dukakis -- who realized that old-fashioned liberalism was in trouble. Social issues such as busing and crime had eroded the party's blue-collar base...
Helen McCoy was also wary of the Chicago minister and civil rights leader. Helen McCoy is a strong Democrat. "I wouldn't vote for a Republican [even] if I was dying," she maintains. But if Jackson ever garners the nomination, McCoy says she'd abandon the party at the polls...
Disgusted with Chilean politics, Torre and Vera resolve to go to France to be together for the rest of their lives. Vera, however, realizes he cannot deny his roots, and he travels south to find his father. For her part, Torre finds she is not strong enough to abandon her life-long work as an activist to take care of Vera's child and Lopito's ugly little girl. Resolving to work again for freedom in her country, she leaps out of Vera's car and consequently throws potential love and happiness out of her life...
Last week, in an unprecedented change of heart, the American Baptist Churches (membership: 1.6 million; the name was changed in 1972) became the first Protestant denomination to abandon its eager embrace of the prochoice position. After a three-year task force study, the A.B.C.'s decision-making General Board, meeting at Green Lake, Wis., voted 161 to 9 to revise its 1981 policy statement. The former position had asserted that having an abortion should be a "responsible, personal decision." The denomination now acknowledges a "diversity of deeply held convictions" in its ranks, from the prolife view that "abortion is immoral...