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...could have returned to the relative comfort of Minnesota. Instead, in 1931 Wilkins joined the N.A.A.C.P. staff, at a time when lynching was still a threat in the U.S. "We had to provide physical security first," he said. At great risk, he investigated brutal conditions in Mississippi delta labor camps, and his report prompted Congress to set up minimum standards and wages for all flood-control laborers. In 1934 he succeeded W.E.B. DuBois as editor of the N.A.A.C.P. magazine, the Crisis...
...gray and brooding, the 103-mile-long concrete barrier known universally as the Wall. Willy Brandt was mayor of West Berlin when the East Germans sealed the border virtually overnight. Last week, in its own schizophrenic way, the city that incarnates all of the tragedy of Europe's brutal division between East and West marked the latest anniversary of the monument to repression...
...Iran had "rubbed America's nose in the dirt."* To Americans, the series of events stirred painful memories of the 444-day U.S. hostage ordeal. But to the French, the latest targets of "revolutionary" Islamic vengeance in Iran, last week's episode came as an unexpected and brutal shock. In Paris, Socialist President François Mitterrand canceled weekend plans and closeted himself for five hours with aides to discuss the crisis. Meanwhile, Foreign Ministry spokesmen at the Quai d'Orsay issued optimistic statements. Declared Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson...
This is the world of the zealots, where Irish youth are willing to starve themselves for their cause of driving the British out of Northern Ireland. It is an astounding kind of sacrifice-a brutal, lingering death, full of hatred and martyrdom, so fanatical and Irish. The moment one striker dies, 50 volunteer to take his place. Tom McElwee, who died last week, wore a glass eye as a result of one of his own guerrilla bombs. Behind him, at 55 days, Patrick Quinn, 29, had once slipped into unconsciousness. Big-bellied Michael Devine, 27, was at 48 days, gangly...
...seminary adolescent summer to the slopes of middle age. As a priest, Kevin is a controversial writer and social scientist who bears an unflattering resemblance to the author. Donahue, clearly more fictional, is a cleric whose path through the hierarchy to Cardinal glides steadily up despite a series of brutal sexual encounters...