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...could at first, and I've learned about my own inadequacies, my own lack of knowledge. I've had a chance to see problems in people's lives that I had never visualized before. I learned a lot more about ethnic groups who still feel the brunt of discrimination. I've seen much more clearly the dual interest of people who live in this country but still have a very strong affinity for their family home in Poland or Czechoslovakia, Israel or Africa. So, I think in the process of campaigning, I've learned about...
Throughout the South, news of Northern and Border-state unrest over busing has been greeted with understanding and something more than a little regional hubris. For 22 years, since the Supreme Court's pathfinding decision against "separate but equal" education, the South has borne the brunt of federal court orders, HEW guidelines and financial sanctions, and national "holier-than-thou" attention. Now, perhaps, the South can teach other regions a few civil rights lessons...
...heaven itself. "God in all his glory did not let this happen without reason," said one Mindanao official in an emotional appeal to the stricken population of Cotabato City (pop. 80,000), 500 miles south of Manila, to cooperate in rescue work. Observed a health officer: "We suffered the brunt of the Moslem insurgency in 1973, and we had the drought in 1972. Now this. Some of the people are saying the fates are angry...
...struggle, the women fought alongside the men. Carrying field radios on their backs, they acted as artillery spotters, calling in the Palestinian long-range artillery and rockets poised in West Beirut. At least 20 were killed in action. The children, too, joined in. Toward the end, the brunt of the fighting was borne by the Palestinian Ashbals (Sons of the Lion), youthful fighters often no more than 13 years...
...junior varsity raced its final at 1:20, escaping the brunt of the rain squall. They crossed the line in a field of five. "They were racing bow-ball to bow-ball with UConn for second place for 2000 meters, and they just lost by a foot or so at the finish. I was very pleased with them," Huntsman said...