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...indignation was Carter's abrupt dismissal of assertive ex-Congresswoman Bella Abzug as co-chair of the National Advisory Committee for Women, an action the President apparently thought would cause little trouble. To his surprise, 26 of the 40 members of the committee, including Co-Chair Carmen Delgado Votaw, resigned in protest...
...four-room apartment in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn with the four children she had by a man named Vicente Santana, whom she lived with from 1959, when she first came to New York from Puerto Rico, until 1969. A present member of the household is Francisco Delgado, whom she took up with some months before she and Mr. Santana parted...
...sailors, out with the Communists and officers." In June, when 3,000 people on São Miguel Island protested the low prices that farmers were getting for their milk from the mainland, the demonstration turned into a minor rebellion; the rioters seized the radio station and Huberto Delgado Airport and held them for six hours...
...cannot wait for natural selection to change him, some scientists warn, because the process is much too slow. Yale Physiologist José Delgado likens the human animal to the dinosaur: insufficiently intelligent to adapt to his changing environment. Caltech Biophysicist Robert Sinsheimer calls men "victims of emotional anachronisms, of internal drives essential to survival in a primitive past, but undesirable in a civilized state." Thus, by his own efforts, man must sharpen his intellect and curb his aboriginal urges, especially his aggressiveness...
Physiologist Delgado has developed even more dramatic methods of aggression control in animals. In one famous experiment, he implanted electrodes in the brain of a bull bred for fierceness. Then, with only a small radio transmitter as protection, he entered the ring with the bull and stopped the angry animal in mid-charge by sending signals into what he believes was its violence-inhibiting center. Similarly, Neuroanatomist Carmine Clemente of U.C.L.A. has shocked cats into dropping rats they were about to kill. But neither man sees any early prospects for remote control of human aggression...