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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hooray for the parents of Eagle Point High School! We parents must pay the bill. We must demand to call the tune and run the schools. I've yet to see a job application form asking, "How many ball games did your school win?" Employers should expect the applicants to be able to read, write and do arithmetic. Frances Wideman Birmingham...
Jews have been admitted as occasional guests for many years, but black visitors continue to be a rarity. As Club Manager Jim Custance once explained to a reporter: "[Members] call this their home away from home. If somebody feels they want a black in their home, they can bring him here...
Their roots in Plains are almost mystical to Rosalynn. "To have roots is so important. Everybody needs a place they call home, a place that doesn't change. When I go home to Plains, I know people there care for me, they will do anything for me. I think that's one thing about Jimmy that appealed to people-he did have roots, he did have that stability, a sense of belonging and knowing...
American Heroes. Since he too is wanted by the police as an SSRC agitator, another student, Shadrack, 17, met me in a remote section of Soweto. "We are not a bunch of bomb-throwing radicals," he insisted. "Because we struggle for a decent education, the authorities call us Communists. What rubbish! My heroes are not Marx and Lenin. They are Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King. Our campaign is peaceful, non-Communist and nonviolent. How many police have been killed in this bloodshed? Three? That should prove which side is the violent one." (Officially, the SSRC has deplored firebombings buttressing...
Environmentalists have used the accidents to call again for action to control the risks posed by oil carriers, and they are urging the U.S. to adopt stricter tanker regulations. Some charge that the Coast Guard has ample authority under the Ports and Waterways Safety Act of 1972 to upgrade the standards of foreign ships entering U.S. waters, and accuse the service of moving too slowly to use this power. "The Coast Guard has been almost negligent," claims Jeffrey Knight, legislative director for Friends of the Earth. "It has been since 1972, and that's a long time to twiddle your...