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With the news of some kind of a meeting out, Young decided to call on Israel's U.N. Ambassador Yehuda Blum, a Czechoslovakian-born expert on international law. What Young especially wanted to accomplish, he said, was to assure the Israelis that they were wrong to feel that "there was some grand conspiracy to change our policy toward the P.L.O...
Young learned negotiation and conciliation in the Italian and Irish neighborhood of New Orleans where he was born 47 years ago. His grandfather was a prosperous "bayou entrepreneur," his father a dentist, and his mother a prominent black Creole. Although they tried to shield him from racial prejudice, Young recalls: "I was taught to fight when people called me Nigger, and that's when I learned negotiating was better than fighting." After going to Howard University and Hartford Seminary Foundation, he eventually moved to Atlanta to work with King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1972, after...
...deal with sizable racial minorities in the form of "guest workers" who have been allowed in on a temporary basis to fill factory and public service jobs. But in Britain, by contrast, most of the minorities are citizens; moreover, fully 40% of the country's nonwhites were born in Britain, and that proportion is swelling fast as a result of a birth rate that is 50% higher than the national average. Yet there is an almost unconscious refusal to accept them. In the last major poll on racial issues, taken by Gallup in February 1978, 49% thought that nonwhites...
...announced in the fall, would restrict most further immigration to the wives and children of male heads of families already legally settled in Britain; that would chiefly affect nonwhites, since many would-be white immigrants would be admitted under a provision allowing immigration of persons who have a British-born grandparent. Under the Tory plan, the new Commonwealth inflow would drop in twelve months from the 1978 total of 42,939 to as low as 28,000, and would further decline over the next five years to under 5,000 annually. Also, those who are admitted would have to prove...
...future looked bleak for Roosje, or Little Rose. The latest member of the famed open-air chimpanzee colony at The Netherlands' Burgers Dierenpark, near Arnhem, she had been born to a handicapped mother who could not care...