Word: exoduses
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...power. As Reagan pointed out in his speech last week, "For too long now, black Americans seem to have been written off by one party and taken for granted by another." The President's point is undoubtedly valid, but his argument is unlikely to spark a black exodus to the G.O.P. so long as the Reagan Administration's record on civil rights is suspect. Meanwhile black allegiance to the Democratic Party is so ingrained that Edwin T. Sexton, head of a black political consulting firm, gloomily advises ambitious black candidates "not to run on the Republican ticket...
...down, many problems to go, with the exodus of the P.L.O...
...time the exodus was complete, more than 11,000 Palestinians had been evacuated from Lebanon, and 3,625 Syrian soldiers had been moved by convoy from West Beirut to the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon. When U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut was informed on Wednesday that the last chartered ship, the Mediterranean Sun, had received clearance from the Israeli navy to sail for the Syrian port of Tartus with 700 Palestinians, the Marine operator replied, "O.K., well done. Now let's go home." That afternoon U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced in Beirut that the Marines would be leaving...
...first exposure in her diary, she wrote: "All voices sounded like jabberwocky because they were so different," As she adjusted, however, she found that "I was able to understand my cousin despite the fact that he has a low voice and a mustache." Later, she rediscovered music: "I put Exodus on the stereo. So stirring was the music that I suddenly began to cry in an almost hysterical way. The beauty of the sound was almost torture-I simply couldn't get enough...
...situation is well in hand as the P.L.O. 's exodus proceeds apace...