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That set the stage for the latest chapter in the case, which began last Wednesday night when an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, Norman Siegel, 29, flew from Washington, D.C., to Seattle, then drove 145 miles to Goose Prairie, Wash., site of Douglas' rustic summer retreat...
Minnesotans are proud of that. After the 1967 riots, in the intelligently direct style of most Minnesota politics, businessmen, civil rights leaders and educators met to organize the first Urban Coalition chapter in the country. Today blacks are often among the state's more enthusiastic boosters. Says Gleason Glover, executive director of the Minneapolis Urban League: "For a black, Minneapolis is one of the truly outstanding cities in the U.S. to live in. The problems here?housing, education, discrimination, unemployment?are manageable ... There just isn't the real, deep-seated hatred here that blacks often encounter in other cities...
...wake of the June elimination of tenure at the college, and the dismissal of 13 faculty members, 11 of whom had tenure, the Bloomfield chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), has filed a civil suit which claims that the college's reasons for the removal of the tenure system are invalid...
WHILE THE first four chapters of this slim book are autobiographical, always, however, with an eye on the wider political scene, the last chapter looks forward to what solution would bring a lasting peace to the Middle East, one that takes into account the national rights of the disinherited, dispossessed Palestinians. Turki sketches a tentative plan of a separate Palestinian state alongside Israel which would give Palestinians at least the right to national self-determination in part of their homeland. However, in coversation, the author has moved away from that position because he fears a separate state would just become...
However, if this chapter in history is complete, it will note that this accomplishment probably would have occurred 20 years earlier had it not been for the opposition at that time of Mr. Nixon and his philosophical counterparts...