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Chavez told the Government Center gathering that Gallo--which produces 40 per cent of California wine and recently signed a contract with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters--is "in trouble" because of the UFW-organized boycott of liquor stores selling its wines. He said Gallo has had to cut back from three daily working shifts to two since the boycott began...
Class Snobbery. In a sentimental attempt at brotherhood-of-beasts, Adams goes so far as to have his hlessil form an alliance with a black-headed gull and a field mouse. Alas, in an unfortunate lapse into rabbit class snobbery, the mouse drops its aitches like a cockney while the gull speaks with a bad Russian accent...
...anniversary of the death of Jan Palach, the Czech student who set himself afire to protest the Soviet occupation of his country. The press of subsequent events has blurred the memory of the Czechoslovak people's effort in 1968 to build a genuinely communist society, where freedom, equality, and brotherhood--ideals nations have acknowledged as desirable since 1789 but seldom pursued at any time--could become a reality. Sunday's anniversary is a reminder of that effort...
...observes: "He feels he must rectify injustices suffered by his people. He's no militant, but there's a smoldering fire in him that won't go out until all blacks have equal rights." Jackson himself puts his goal simply: to make Atlanta "a city of brotherhood, prosperity and peace...
There was little ennobling in the broad shape of human affairs in 1973. Mankind progressed haltingly, if at all, in its tortuous quest for greater wisdom in the conduct of international relations and greater brotherhood among individuals. The U.S. continued to improve relations with China and clung to a strained detente with the Soviet Union. But political sentiments elsewhere still were expressed in the blood language of terrorist bombs and bullets, from Belfast to Madrid, Rome to Khartoum. Once more men died in battles on the hot sands of the Sinai and in the barren Golan Heights. The first freely...