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Equal Rights Amendment. The ERA states succinctly: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." So indisputable did that proposition seem that the amendment breezed through Congress in 1972 and was ratified by 35 states. But the last three it needs are the hardest to get. None of the remaining states is a sure...
...holdup man as an informant to penetrate the Ku Klux Klan and investigate the 1963 murder of Black Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers. The informant kidnaped a suspected Klan leader, bound him hand and foot, and then interrogated him at pistol point at a lonely farm to extract an account of the crime. But largely because such evidence was obtained under duress, and therefore is inadmissible in court, the Government was never able to get a conviction in the Evers case...
...graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Novacek was once president of Grace Line, then executive vice president of Seatrain Lines. He formed Moram in 1976, and now has a crackerjack sales force of more than 33 salespeople. Novacek runs the agency, according to his own account, in the style of any Western company, drawing up an annual plan for approval from his superiors in Moscow. To charges that the Soviets are deliberately running deficits to "buy" cargo business from foreign competitors, Novacek retorts: "This is purely a business arrangement." Professor Joseph Sweeney, a Fordham University authority on maritime...
...account of such indecency might spoil her agreeable picture of Burchett, and this pleasant "peripatetic fellow" might have seemed better worth contempt than an encouraging column. But it is time that American supporters of Ho Chi Minh and his successors gave up the delusion that the barbaric tyranny under which all Vietnam now groans, and which the ill-managed American effort bravely tried to spare the south, is tempered by any particular humanity. James W. Muller...
Edward A. Sweeney, assistant dean for curriculum at the Harvard Dental School and chairman of the Massachusetts Committee for Fluoridation, also notes that the Yiamouyiannis study was wholly unscientific and did not account for other carcinogenic agents common to industrialized areas...