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...university. Some of Virginia's most prominent citizens are, or have been, members of both institutions. In fact, 150 of the school's faculty and staff currently belong to Farmington, including President Frank L. Hereford Jr., 52. But in one area, the college and the club differ completely. The University of Virginia admits and is actively recruiting blacks; Farmington does not accept blacks as either members or guests. Last week, after members had voted overwhelmingly to continue the club's restrictive policies, Hereford was undergoing pressure to resign from Farmington...
...lapse of 90 minutes to allow total absorption of the alcohol into the bloodstream, they began taking blood samples from the subjects once every 30 minutes over a three-hour period. The tests invariably showed that the rates at which ethanol disappeared from subjects' bloodstreams did not differ by race. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers conclude that there is no significant difference in the way Indians and whites get (or don't get) stewed...
Historians differ about just what set off the bloodletting: A scuffle over a brave's rifle, or perhaps a medicine man defiantly throwing some dirt in the air? But anyone reading Philos' document may hear a now familiar tone of self-justification and self-excuse: "... excesses occurred ... the actions of inexperienced, untested troops who were carried away in the heat of battle ..." As for the word massacre, Indian Historian Dee Brown (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee) declared that "when you fire on defenseless women and children with Gatling guns, I don't know what other word...
While it is inevitable that the secrecy, the downright deceit and the huge buildup from small beginnings in Viet Nam are bitterly remembered, the comparison between Angola and Viet Nam is alarmist and simplistic. For one thing, or so the Administration argues, the levels of aid differ enormously. In 1954, the year the French pulled out of Indochina, for example, the Eisenhower Administration asked Congress for $500 million to aid the region's anti-Communist fighting forces. Ford and Kissinger have assured Congress that the U.S. will not send advisers or troops to Angola, and Washington's goal...
Widespread poverty is a problem that afflicts all underdeveloped countries. Nonetheless, they differ among themselves so greatly in their economic promise that it makes more sense these days to divide the globe into five worlds instead of three...