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...whose latest issue appeared last week. The U.S. State Department insisted that it was entirely consistent with previously stated U.S. policy condemning the South African practice of racial apartheid. As departmental officials noted, Secretary of State George Shultz in a September speech called for a "universal franchise for all adult South Africans," which by implication assumes eventual black rule. But Perkins' article was nonetheless viewed by some observers as a breakthrough, if only in his reference to the word majority, a term usually shunned in deference to white fears of one day being overwhelmed by blacks. Said the Rev. Allan...
...final act had always been the most boring, with the best ballet. And so it was tonight. The dancing was terrific, but the scene too adult, with few fairy elements. The little girl behind me agreed. When the male lead came out for his second solo performance, the little girl said quite audibly, "Again?" Her mother replied, "He's going to do some leaps...
Four others -- Jack Kemp, Pete du Pont, Pat Robertson and Alexander Haig -- have spoken out against the deal, and Bob Dole has expressed only lukewarm support. Their disapproval is all the more surprising since Republican voters overwhelmingly favor it. A CBS/New York Times poll recently reported that 62% of adult Americans, including 63% of Republicans, like the treaty. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll surveyed probable voters in Iowa and New Hampshire and found support for the INF accord among 77% of Republicans in Iowa and 74% in New Hampshire...
...Illinois Democrat also said he would launchan attack on adult illiteracy which might cost upto $500 million, an improved student grantsprogram whose cost he would not specify, and achild care program linked to either the jobstraining program or the education package...
...boasts some 26,000 regional groups. But the real comer is the children-of-alcoholics movement, aimed at the nearly 30 million offspring of chronic drinkers in the U.S. Made up of a variety of organizations, the movement took off four years ago with the best-selling book Adult Children of Alcoholics, a guide to the dilemmas C.O.A.s face, by Janet Geringer Woititz, a human-relations counselor in Verona...