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...week before, in Minnesota, during the Senate's Easter recess, Humphrey had been prepared for no such sudden crisis. He did not expect Carter to win so resoundingly in Pennsylvania. Flying around Minnesota to speak at his party's district nominating conventions, Humphrey raised the rafters as he tore into Gerald Ford. It was like being at a prizefight; oldtimers said that Humphrey had never sounded better, and that pleased him. In his speeches, Humphrey's final line always brought his audience cheering to its feet. If his party wanted him as its nominee, he told them...
...York's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Episcopal Bishop Paul Moore Jr. last week aimed a fire-and-brimstone Easter sermon at those corporations that have decided to leave New York City.* Every firm that departs, said the bishop, helps perpetuate a cycle of rising unemployment, diminishing city services and increased crime. He added: "Even though they may be clothed in economic considerations, most industries' decisions to leave are basically immoral decisions." Touching on another consideration for leaving, he described white fear of black crime as a "racist, guilt-fear myth...
Strong stuff, at Easter or any other time. And, perhaps, laced with a bit of the bishop's own mythology. To be sure, leaving New York may cost jobs and reduce tax levies, but would it be particularly "moral" for a company to ignore economics and its responsibilities to employees and stockholders? In managing to be sanctimonious and demagogic at the same time, the bishop displayed little real understanding of the reasons for New York's plight; his premise has very little to do with the city's overarching problems. Second thoughts and perhaps a second sermon...
After a long Easter weekend that gave Italians a brief respite from their unending political crisis, millions of people, including most of the country's politicians, piled into Fiats last week and inched along traffic-choked roads leading from the seashore or mountains back to the cities. When they finally reached home, they found that the political situation had deteriorated even further. The main political parties were unable to agree on a common program to deal with the country's deteriorating economy. There were new incidents of urban terrorism and still more charges of corruption leveled against...
Land Mine. The band of 20 guerrillas, dressed in uniforms similar to those of Rhodesian security guards, began their rampage on Easter Sunday. Stationing themselves on the Great North Road at a point some 70 miles north of the South African border, they began stopping cars and robbing the occupants. One of the robberies was interrupted by the arrival of two motorcycles, each carrying two white South Africans. Possibly mistaking the newcomers for plainclothes security forces, the guerrillas immediately opened fire, killing three male cyclists and wounding their 19-year-old woman companion. At the same time, the guerrillas detonated...