Word: blindness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handicapped, as well as runaway youths, abused children, Indian tribes and Alaskan natives. HEW also runs Head Start, a program that prepares disadvantaged youngsters for school. It offers vocational rehabilitation, "meals on wheels" for older people who cannot leave their homes, vending stands to be operated by the blind. In sum, HEW is as broad and varied as American life itself, surely one of the most ambitious undertakings in the history of the world, financed on a scale that would have amazed the most Utopian thinkers of the past...
...bleeding hearts, these. They pointed to the many slum dwellers who did not riot as proof that those who vented their anger in violence were somehow deviant and could be somehow fixed or cured. The doctors' blind faith in a simplistic biological approach was incredible. Their statement conjures up an image of teams of white-coated neurosurgeons descending on America's ghettos, intent on weeding out those with faulty brains and patching up their neurological circuitry. Fortunately, the physicians' suggestions never got far beyond the theoretical stage, although in 1970 Mark and Ervin did come out with a semi-popular...
Last week, as Berkowitz returned to court to be sentenced, it was Son of Sam's turn to put in an appearance. In a packed courtroom sat Stacy Moskowitz's mother and Robert Violante, Stacy's date the night of the murder, who is partly blind from the gunshot wounds he received. While the spectators waited for 1½ hr., guards struggled to bring the killer into the courtroom; he scratched and bit them, trying to rush for a window. Finally, disheveled and handcuffed, he was pushed into the room. His face was flushed, his eyes bulging...
Those who wish to help disabled people on a regular basis (e.g., read to blind students, push a wheelchair) may do so through the volunteer services of the Bureau of Study Counsel...
...Mobutu will continue to oppress his people. If American policy-makers succeed in firing up the Cold War again, the MPLA may be prevented from ever establishing true independence for the Angolan people. Worst of all, however, as Rhodesia's white foreign minister pointed out this week, America's blind anti-Soviet knee-jerks can only help the racist white regimes in Rhodesia and South Africa...