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Blacks too involved with "white society," Muhammad said, were guilty of "selling out" and therefore "worthy of death." Blacks, the minister said, should not be at Harvard, studying "the curriculum of the enemy." With such talk, the Foundation certainly succeeded in bringing "a view which is absent or lacking on campus," one of the group's criteria for receiving a student grant. But fostering dialogue is different from sponsoring a call for violence and racial warfare...
Still, no one can do a proper job if the equipment is so intrinsically flawed. Even the Mozart of bell ringers couldn't make this orchestra sound decent--the instruments are permanently out of tune and the concertmaster is forever absent...
...custody. The videotaped beating of motorist Rodney King by four Los Angeles cops last year threw a spotlight on the use of excessive force by police. The number of reports continues to remain high across the country after the furor that followed that attack. Female officers have been conspicuously absent from these charges: the independent Christopher commission, which investigated the L.A.P.D. in the aftermath of the King beating, found that the 120 officers with the most use- of-force reports were all men. Civilian complaints against women are also consistently lower. In San Francisco, for example, female officers account...
...Palestinians boycotted the two-day meeting because Russia and the U.S. backed Israel's refusal to admit representatives from outside the occupied West Bank and Gaza. But the absent Palestinians may have scored a small success. U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and senior Russian officials said they would favor allowing Palestinians from outside the occupied territories to join the working groups on some regional issues, such as refugees and economic cooperation...
...prevent or stop massacres, the U.S. might be forced into an indefinite occupation and installation of a kind of puppet government in Baghdad (shades of Vietnam!). Absent some gross new provocation from Saddam, much of the Arab world would regard this as a neo-colonial occupation; the outbreaks of anti- Western fury that were predicted but failed to occur during the gulf war might really happen this time. At minimum, the U.S. would lose the leverage that has enabled it to get Arab-Israeli peace talks started...