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...might they also characterize an enduring theme of the Black struggle in America? The question has become grave today, with the Reagan administration's policies jeopardizing recently acquired benefits. Can and will Blacks continue to advance while the government discourages more busing to desegregate schools and lets Black unemployment climb to more than 16 per cent, and Conservatives more openly oppose the won-with-blood Voting Rights...
...bystander, who said she was not affiliated with either group, said she attempted shortly after 8 p.m. to climb the stairs into the hall but was punched and pushed aside by Spartacist members. "I just wanted to see what was going on, and one of them punched me and then they all started shoving," Melanie B. Yun, a tutor at South House and an administrator at the Kennedy School of Government, said...
...able to capture any satellite equipped with appropriately mated hooks. On this voyage, Truly will only guide the 50-ft.-long arm through various manipulations of its "shoulder," "elbow" and "wrist" joints. If the machinery jams when the arm is extended, one of the spacemen will have to climb into a pressure suit and go outside to reel the limb in. If that fails, the arm will have to be jettisoned in space. For unless the shuttle's big, heat-shielded cargo doors are shut tight, Columbia will not survive the scorching descent through the atmo sphere back...
...Cancún, Mexico, where he met leaders from seven other industrialized nations and 14 developing nations. Billed as the first dialogue between the mostly rich Northern Hemisphere and the mostly poor South, the conference was intended to seek ways in which the haves could help the have-nots climb out of poverty. Yet the meeting broke up with no real achievements, and little consensus other than that the U.S. cannot be pushed where it does not wish to go. The best that could be said about Cancún is that the leaders agreed to continue talking, but neither...
...main idea behind the summit, that the industrialized world must help the underdeveloped countries climb out of poverty, has been an article of Third World policy for decades. The immediate inspiration for Cancún came from a report published last year by an 18-member independent commission on international development headed by former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Among its proposals: major aid transfers to the Third World; reform of international lending agencies to provide cheaper credit to the Third World; stabilization of oil and commodity prices to benefit the developing countries. The Brandt report also urged that leaders...