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After three months in office, the Nixon Administration cannot claim much success in gaining the confidence of the nation's 23 million Negroes or that of other minorities with similar problems. "I really don't think Mr. Nixon is sensitive to the problems of black people and poor people," says Ralph Abernathy,Martin Luther King's successor as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. "Blacks regard him as a President who is concerned only with the welfare of the rich and" the affluent."Liberals in Congress, who generally have been chary in their criticism of Nixon...
...monitors of Hanoi's newspapers and broadcasts report frequent condemnation of apathy and general slackness. There is also the tremendous death toll on the battlefield. In an interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, North Viet Nam's Defense Minister, Vo Nguyen Giap, was asked if the American claim that he had "lost a half a million men" was correct. "That's quite exact," answered Giap without batting...
Members of the CRSR include the drafters of the demands adopted at Soldiers' Field. The committee has few people formally committee has few people formally committed to its demands and does not claim to represent the people at Soldiers' Field. It adopted the following statement...
...Business School stressed the responsibility of its students to their company organization. But "Business School students were showing no responsibility as part of the organization of Harvard." The "total lack of response to violation of rights as performed by the University," she said, negated the Business School's claim of responsibility to the organization...
...allows for the elevating effect of a rich cultural environment. But except in cases of severe deprivation, he denies any substantial depressing effect in a culturally poor one. The implication, to him, is that most Negroes-and, for that matter, many low-income whites-are not sufficiently deprived to claim environment as a major factor in low IQ performance. "Various lines of evidence," he argues, "no one of which is definitive alone, make it a not unreasonable hypothesis that genetic factors are strongly implicated in the average Negro-white intelligence difference." The difference, according to him, is found...