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...family instability: the unemployment rate among black men (16%) is nearly three times as high as among white men, and black family incomes are, on the average, 56% of white family incomes. It is hard to keep any family together under such financial pressures. Fathers, feeling defeated and useless, drift away. "The strong growth in female-headed households," says Norton, a law professor at Georgetown University, "is the central problem in black families and why poverty is so lasting." Teen-age mothers too often produce children who become teen-age mothers. Says John Bayne, a Washington social services official...
More specifically, whether the contra campaign continues or not, the U.S. cannot let the situation in Central America drift. The risks of Marxist revolution spreading through the isthmus are real. Ultimately that could lead to a destabilized and unfriendly Mexico on the nation's southern border, a flood of refugees across American frontiers and even, at a not inconceivable extreme, Soviet bases next door. Military strengthening of El Salvador and other countries threatened by leftist insurrection is an indispensable part of any strategy to prevent that nightmare from coming true. But the U.S. has overemphasized military measures, even though...
Rowing in a crosswind, the Husky crew overcompensated for the drift--right into Harvard. "I heard our cox yell, 'Washington, give me room,'" sophomore stroke Amos Gelb said...
Henry Kissinger's "A Plan to Reshape NATO" [SPECIAL SECTION, March 5] is a brilliant exposé of the strains within the Atlantic Alliance. "Drift will lead to unraveling" if the changes Kissinger proposes are not implemented soon. It is astonishing that the West fails to grasp not only the continuing reality of the Soviet threat but also the potentially disastrous situation that may result from continual stalling...
...more structural?a more rational balance of responsibilities. The present allocation of responsibilities fails to bring the allies to reflect naturally about either security or political objectives. Everyone has been afraid to take the initiative in changing the present arrangement, lest doing so unravel the whole enterprise. But since drift will surely lead to unraveling?if more imperceptibly?statesmanship impels a new approach...