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Perhaps the greatest social challenge to our nation is to realize the enormous potential of our racial, ethnic and cultural diversity. Creating a climate in which each of us is truly comfortable with difference is not an easy task. It requires training and commitment to treat multiethnicity as the essence of our country. Burt E. Schuman, Executive Director Panel of Americans, Inc. New York City Dipping Snuff and Chewing Tobacco...
...Guyana and authoritarian ruler of his Caribbean-rim nation (pop. 800,000) since two years before independence in 1966; during an operation for a throat ailment; in Georgetown, Guyana. Folksy and sharp-witted, with a flair for oratory, he won the 1964 election by playing on tensions between ethnic Indians and blacks and on U.S. and British fears of Marxist Cheddi Jagan, the first pre-independence Premier. Thereafter he blended leftist rhetoric, aggressive nonalignment and a socialist policy that professed economic self-sufficiency but led, partly because of depressed commodity prices, to acute shortages of even basic foodstuffs, a foreign...
West Point is a powerful experience, but it does not totally mold its graduates. Their values have already been established before they enter. My class ('69) included almost every ethnic, religious and racial group and, although basically conservative, was a good cross section of America. We did not have the "rigid military-academy mind-set" to which your article referred. You are perpetuating a popular misconception. I am sure today's cadets are much the same as we were. Gary L. Schappaugh Garland, Texas...
...about how you contribute to our country and its future. And I think Australians see that. I took two of my children to the service in Martin Place in Sydney last year and we couldn't get near the Cenotaph - there were so many people of all ages and ethnic backgrounds, a real cross-section of the community. I think Australians look around the world and see a lot of death and destruction, but when they look at the Defence Force's contribution it's seen as a very positive one. And that's not because the Army has good...
...group charged that the proceeds of Unocal’s pipeline project “fuel a brutal military dictatorship that has committed systematic rape, ethnic cleansing, and imprisonment of over a thousand political prisoners...