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...days earlier she could go practically anywhere without being recognized, much less causing a stir. But in San Francisco last week Geraldine Ferraro was a mobile media event, her every public move and utterance analyzed for substance and style. Citizens thronged around her, and politicians of every color and creed embraced her. Some women cried as they touched...
Pendleton, a presidential appointee, has been an outspoken apostle of Reagan's civil rights creed, which includes opposition to quotas and other coercive remedies for discrimination. The letters apparently grew out of talks between Pendleton and two of the Administration's leading civil rights conservatives, Counsellor Edwin Meese and William Bradford Reynolds, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Their aim: to keep Reagan true to his conservative beliefs. Pendleton said he wrote the letters to let the President know "there are people who believe in his original agenda...
DIED. Flora Robson, 82, versatile British character actress who graced both the London and Broadway stages and scores of films; in Brighton, England. She specialized in villainesses, including Lady Macbeth, the demoniacal Ellen Creed in Ladies in Retirement (1939), and the shoplifter in Black Chiffon (1949), but was also known for her portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I, most notably in the 1937 film Fire over England...
...have their roots in the Islamic world. Though they know their Arab neighbors better, and like them less, than do their compatriots of European origin, they are often lumped by association with Israel's sworn enemy. For their part, the Sephardim point out that Judaism is a Semitic creed and that the Torah was originally handed down in the Sinai...
...members of the Northeast Kingdom Community Church in tiny Island Pond, Vt. (est. pop. 1,200), corporal punishment of children is part of their Fundamentalist creed. But to their neighbors, it looked like child abuse. There were reports from former church members that babies less than six months old were hit with wooden rods. One 13-year-old girl was said to have been beaten for eight hours, until her body was covered with welts, as punishment for telling a lie. Said Linda Schneider, a former church member: "A child would cry, and they would beat him with...