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...grandiloquence the Rev. Jesse Jackson maintains that "I've never seen such a wholesale machinery of disenfranchisement at work" as what occurred in Florida on this Election Day. It was, he says, "a 10 on a scale of 10" in the degree of voting-rights abuses, worse than Selma, Ala. Though that is an exaggeration, since no one was murdered for the right to vote in Florida during last week's balloting, as they were in Selma, Jackson has a point. In Florida, black college students came to the polls with their registration cards but were turned away because their...
...questions? Probably not too differently from the way they view other issues of human life and dignity. Attitudes toward abortion are a key. Given the lack of political consensus in this regard, it's hard to see what the government may allow in the future. JOHN D. SMITH Daphne, Ala...
...then David Dohilite, 15, had been sucked into the system. An incorrigible kid, David had rebelled against his working-class parents in Magnolia Springs, Ala., near Mobile, in a yet unreformed county. Under state law, parents could turn over custody of defiant children to the department of human resources, but the agency lacked "therapeutic foster homes" for kids more troubled than abused. If kids threatened suicide or suffered the slightest mental disorder, they would be bounced to the Department of Mental Health. If they had broken the law, they would go to the agency that handles juvenile delinquents. The screening...
...Poland and what was once the U.S.S.R., in Selma, Ala., and Johannesburg and in countless other places, the catalyst for change has been the very common act of someone saying, "No more!" The longer I live, the more firmly I believe that an oppressed people's rallying cry to revolution is not "Freedom!" but "Enough already!" When people gather under that banner, anything is possible. FRAN HUTCHINSON Brattleboro...
Last week, Republican Congressional leaders announced they would fully support President Clinton's proposal to allocate $435 million to the global $90 billion debt relief initiative. Rep. Sonny Callahan (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the House committee controlling the foreign aid budget, calls this step "the noble thing to do," although it remains unclear what exactly caused this dramatic turnaround after a decade of apprehensions about any such measure...