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Leaders of the N.A.A.C.P., which held its 73rd annual convention in Boston last week, dismiss criticism that the association is currently lacking in originality or imagination. "We have made 73 years of progress using methods that are tried and true," insists Executive Director Benjamin Hooks, 56. "They are still good. We are not going to abandon them." Nonetheless, there is growing evidence that the organization's stand-pat approach is appealing less and less to the young, educated, middle-class blacks who should be providing it with new leadership...
Most residents dismiss the desire to leave as youthful wanderlust. " Everybody wants to leave but nobody does," says DiDomenico LaRosa agencies". There are a lot of people trying to buy back into East Cambridge, but they cannot because the houses do not exist...
Once START actually begins, of course, the attitude that will count will not be that of the U.N. delegates but the one adopted by the Soviet Union. Presidential aides dismiss any thought that the harsh tone of Reagan's U.N. speech would sour the negotiating atmosphere. Indeed, Reagan was not the only tough talker last week. In his speech to the U.N., Gromyko accused the U.S. of showing a "militaristic frenzy" in its arms buildup and beaming this message to the world: "If you want peace, then it's full steam ahead for war." But when Gromyko...
...Attorney General Elliot Richardson, 61, who quit rather than carry out order to fire Cox, practices law in Washington. Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, 49, who also refused, is senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser Co. in Tacoma, Wash. Robert Bork, 55, third-ranking Justice Department official who did dismiss Cox, was appointed federal appeals court judge by President Reagan...
...domestic purposes as it is anything else. I think that perhaps the President now shares Professor Nye's view that it is the Reagan Administration that is the father of the nuclear freeze movement, and they don't wish to continue to nurture that child. They would like to dismiss it, and one way to do that is to move, as many students of the presidency have often argued, to a somewhat more centrist position to appear more accommodating, to tone down the rhetoric, to come forth with more substantive proposals....I do think also, it took quite a while...