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...picks up the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, which used to trumpet the segregationist line but today champions racial harmony, and reads slowly out loud about George Bush's threatened veto of the new civil rights bill and about a school-board vote in Jackson along racial lines. "The battle of human rights and race relations is over," he says, "but while most people don't express overt racism, their actions manifest a prejudice. We've got to persevere...
...beauty . products as it is in packaged goods from cake mixes to disposable diapers. The company ventured into cosmetics with the 1985 purchase of Richardson-Vicks, maker of Oil of Olay skin-care creams and lotions. In 1989 it acquired Noxell, whose products include the Cover Girl and Clarion cosmetics and toiletries lines. But while P&G racked up about $500 million in sales of beauty products last year, the business was largely confined to the U.S. market. The latest deal will raise the company's beauty revenues to $1.3 billion a year, including $650 million from foreign sales. Said...
...case was revived after more than a quarter-century by Jackson's daily Clarion-Ledger, which last year ran a series of investigative stories on Beckwith's earlier trials. That prompted Hinds County district attorney Ed Peters and assistant D.A. Bobby DeLaughter to re-examine the 1964 proceedings. From then on, as DeLaughter puts it, evidence began "falling into our laps...
Recent reports by Jackson's Clarion-Ledger show that the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a now defunct agency created by the state to battle desegregation, may have interfered in the jury selection for Beckwith's second trial. The newspaper found evidence that commission members relayed information about prospective jurors to Beckwith's lawyer. Assistant District Attorney Bobby DeLaughter is pushing for a new indictment, but that will not be easy. Many witnesses have died, and the murder weapon is missing...
...postwar era was launched with a speech by Harry Truman outlining a presidential vision of containment. Similarly, Bush could launch a postcontainment era by propounding a bold swords-into-plowshares scheme for a fundamental change in East-West relations. Such a clarion call for a radical new Bush Doctrine could command the bipartisan support that accompanied the Truman Doctrine. It could also, at the very least, regain for the U.S. the initiative on the world stage. And, who knows? Gorbachev might go along. More surprising things have happened this year...