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...officers. They said they shot Abram H. Phillips, 21, because he was armed and running. A security guard reportedly killed Michael Scott, 17, as he looted a drugstore. Kenneth Lee China, 22, was merely standing in front of his house when a bullet stuck him in the chest, wounding him fatally. While some of these killings of blacks are already under investigation by the FBI in a sweeping Justice Department probe, top Miami police officers admitted that some members of the department had reacted unprofessionally to the widespread looting. Several policemen walked into a shopping center parking lot at around...
...bishop's English secretary, Jean Waddell, remained behind, and on May 1 a team of gunmen entered her apartment in search of another Anglican clergyman. First they began to strangle her, then fired two shots into her chest. She is still in serious condition. Only a week later, the bishop's son Bahrain, 24, was murdered with shots in the head and chest...
Second, in contrast to the flux of students, Harvard and its reputation have stood firm over the centuries. As deeply entrenched as Widener Library is a way of thinking hostile to educational reform: Harvard's collective ego, a chest-thumping, self-assertiveness that blinds the school's faculty and administration to the faults of the institution. Chief among these misconceptions, the leitmotif of all CUE meetings, is an implacable faith that since Harvard is the best, no student should receive academic credit for work done elsewhere, work that is by definition sub-par to a Harvard Education...
Bakshian's methods are simple; he labels his scoring system the "Seven Deadly Whims." He moves from candidate to candidate, judging each on the basis of (1) leadership, (2) communication, (3) organization, (4) war chest, (5) age/health, (6) marriage/family and (7) wildcard. A candidate's positions on the issues are not included, he says, because issues fit into the other categories. At the end of the book, the horses are given scores, the scores are tallied up to find the winners...
Moral Majority. Virginia's TV Preacher Jerry Falwell founded this organization to mobilize believers for political purposes. He had an hourlong dinner with Reagan in Louisiana last week but has not yet endorsed him. Most of the group's $1 million war chest is targeted for registration and voter education. Moral Majority claims friendly churches have registered more than 1.5 million voters and have increased Republican primary voting in the South. It will assign 70,000 clergy to an even bigger registration blitz in July. Affiliates are at work in 43 states. The Majority is so issues-oriented...