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Roger Adelman, the assistant U.S. attorney handling the case, refused to comment yesterday and Breindel's lawyer, William Taylor could not be reached for comment...
...assume that the Essay "Women Are Getting Out of Hand" [July 18] was written in jest. However, I must respond to your closing comment: "Clearly the future belongs to women." With the ERA not passed, with women being paid only 59? for every dollar that men earn, and with reproductive freedom still threatened, it is hardly assured that "the future belongs to women...
...Salvadoran government forces in the field, which is prohibited now, though they still would not be allowed to join in actual combat. Asked about a larger force at his news conference, Reagan insisted that "no one has presented a proposal to me about increasing the number" of advisers. His comment probably indicates that the Administration, at least for the moment, judges an increase in the number of advisers to be too politically explosive for presentation to Congress...
Jackson appears unbowed by the criticism. "I think jealousy is a factor sometimes," he said. Indeed, the epigram-spouting Jackson is so accessible and eager to supply a colorful comment that many collective black successes are wrongfully attributed only to him. Jackson is widely credited with the surge of black voter registration and turnout in Chicago, for example, although the drive was far from a one-man or even a one-organization effort. His current registration crusade has received wide attention, although it is only part of a larger campaign that includes the Urban League, the N.A.A.C.P. and other civil...
...small comment on the present that it now takes two journalists to do what one John Gunther did some 40 years ago in Inside U.S.A. Gunther's book is clearly the model for Neal Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom's Bunyanesque effort to package the long-and shortcomings of each state in one readable volume. Peirce, a syndicated columnist, and Hagstrom, both editors of the Government affairs weekly National Journal, offer a mint of trivia: the country's longest front porch is at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Mich.; Georgia leads in poultry production; Louisiana is first...