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...podium to ask for an endorsement for re-election which he would receive handily. Presidential candidate Humphrey was not so lucky. In his home state he received barely 51 per cent of the delegates headed to Miami, compared with 49 per cent committed to a liberal coalition of Chisholm-Lindsay-McCarthy-McGovern. Differences over the war, amnesty, gay rights, marijuana, abortion and a dozen other issues left the DFL with an unfortunate pattern of internal rifts that would be repeated nationally...
...relaxation of the arms embargo against South Africa and prohibits the granting of U.S. tax credits for companies doing business in Namibia and paying taxes to South Africa. And it calls for the repeal of the Byrd Amendment which permits the importation of Rhodesian chrome. I asked Rep. Shirley Chisholm if she believes that Jimmy Carter would live up to the party platform principles on Africa. She said she believes he very clearly embraces these principles, and that no president has ever done as much as Jimmy Carter will do for blacks in Africa. She was thoroughly Carterized...
Charles M. Chisholm Oakland, Calif...
...tired of being diddled," sputtered Manhattan's Democratic Congressman Edward Koch; "Ford has bled us to death." New York State University students held a rally at the U.S. Capitol to drum up support for aid to the city; New York Congresswomen Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm and Elizabeth Holtzman lent their voices to the cause. The New York Daily News, a longtime supporter of fiscal conservatism, berated Ford for "tantalizing us in a cold-blooded game of cat and mouse." Said a top G.O.P. congressional leader: "Ford was right at the start. If he didn't hang tough...
When Canadian Psychiatrist Brock Chisholm, former head of the World Health Organization, issued that somber warning in 1957, the public seemed to be of two minds about scientists-awed by their stunning achievements, but increasingly apprehensive about new dangers brought by technological progress, from nerve gases to nuclear weaponry. How do people feel about scientists today? Two British weeklies, the New Scientist, which reports developments in research and technology for a largely scientific audience, and New Society, which is dedicated to the social sciences, recently collaborated on an unusual readership poll in order to find an answer-and also...