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...Michigan's Upper Peninsula, which separates Lake Superior from lakes Michigan and Huron, there are bumper stickers that exhort: SAVE A FISH-SPEAR AN INDIAN. Whites have fired shots at Chippewa fishermen, smashed their boats and slashed their tires. The confrontation intensified last spring after Federal Judge Noel Fox ruled that, under treaties signed in 1836 and 1855, the state could not regulate fishing by Indians. Said Fox: "The fish belong to the Indians as a matter of right." Since then, many Chippewas on the poverty-battered Bay Mills reservation have become full-time commercial fishermen...
...Bumper stickers demanded the impeachment of Earl Warren. Alabama Governor George Wallace called the court a ''sorry, lousy, no-account outfit...
...across the Common, spilling out of the Park Street station. They are greeted first by a battalion of souvenir hawkers peddling commemorative medals, half a dozen brands of Pope programs, (the best of which has a full page of the holy father kissing the ground in different locales), dumb bumper stickers (I saw the Pope in Mass"), and blasphemous tee-shirts ("Pope Adds Life...
Down the hall at the newstand, they are hawking papal t-shirts, bumper stickers, decals, ribbons, and anything else they can find. It is about 1:45 p.m., and the line-up begins. Cameramen use their tripods and lenses, some big enough to polevault with, to clear away the opposition. But the Secret Service is checking all bags. We descend two very gray, concrete flights of steps and peek out into the mist. God is spitting on Logan airport as we find our places and, like everybody else, go running for the front row. They're not checking boarding passes...
...weeks these memos will be on the desks of every lobbyist, every newspaper editor, every publisher, and every media manager in the country. I can see the slogans now--'Smash the New Wave,' and 'No New Wave' on every auto bumper, slapped over all the 'No Nukes' stickers. Here are the memos...