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...growing sense of disenfranchisement and indifference among America's most potentially energetic citizens. The issues of the '60s and '70s raconflict, Victnam, and Watergate--loosened party ties and turned new voters against the political process itself, they led to a wholesale rejection of government, and to the feeling that cial voting was no longer a viable way of influencing the direct of federal policy. Their apathy is not because of ignorance but because of despair. "Students today feel very alienated from the traditional political system," says Beth Pardo of the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MassPIRG) "They see themselves...
...rushed upstairs to the briefing room and tried to convey a sense of calm. In stead, he was perspiring, his voice shook, and his hands trembled. He assured reporters that there was no command vacancy, that communications were open with the Vice President, and that no spe- cial military-alert measures were necessary. But then he blundered. Asked, "Who's making the decisions?" he replied...
...come for the next five years; the nine pages Woods' outlining the banning until conditions October of 1982 still sit on his study desk beside his children's report cards. The beginnings, at least, are outwardly pleasant, like an unexpected family vacation. Eventually there will be finan cial problems. The Daily Dis patch will continue to pay his salary as editor, but he will lose the income from a nationally syndicated column that helped syndicated column that helped pay the school bills for five children. The Woodses will still enjoy the trappings of upper-middle-class life...
...Mayor Richard Daley. When Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were killed in a Chicago shootout two years ago, the dailies at first did not question the official version: that the Panthers fired first and brought the fatal fusillade on themselves. But the Review devoted a spe- cial 16-page issue to the incident and raised many doubts, which now seem amply justified; last summer a grand jury indicted city officials for obstructing justice in covering up what it decided was an unprovoked case of police overkill. The November issue of the Review included a report on the cozy...
...songs, which he delivers in a rich Leadbelly bass, often on marches for peace in Washington or New York, and this month on a tour of some 20 colleges and universities through the South. Though a robustly spiritual man, Kirkpatrick suggests that more black ministers might use their spe cial independence more fruitfully if they could abandon the pie-in-the-sky preaching inherited from slavery days and "get down to the problems right here...