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...Washington as Santiago's ambassador by Chile's Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens in 1971. Two years later, Letelier returned home to take a series of top Cabinet jobs during the frenetic final days of the Allende regime. Imprisoned by the junta that succeeded Allende, Letelier was freed in mid-1975. Returning to Washington as an economist at the Institute for Policy Studies, a self-styled radical think tank where the Moffitts also worked, Letelier had begun calling for unity among opponents of "fascism in Chile." Early in September, he had spoken out against the junta...
...ever there was an instance of "domination by a small elite over the many," that instance was Communist China under Mao. Moreover, in the last sentence of your editorial you imply that Mao's revolution freed the Chinese people from oppression. We respectfully disagree. As we see it, people who have no freedom of thought are still "oppressed." And to top it off, you conveniently overlook the lives which were lost when Mao established his authoritarian rule, conservatively estimated at ten million...
...have come to the Institute for just these reasons--to meet and work with women who are scholarly and diverse. "I knew it would be serious but not just scholasticism--people may interact or just work as they see fit. It's intellectually comfortable here, almost like being freed up of all administrative work and being a third-year graduate student again," Hill says. And the absence of telephones in the offices of the fellows indicates clearly the atmosphere of hard and individual work the Institute hopes to provide...
...Garrity Jr., one of the five magistrates who handles cases before the United States District Court of the District of Massachusetts. The 14 words that impelled his forced busing mandate lie at the tail of the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed three years after the 13th amendment freed black and all other slaves. This vague and pivotal half-sentence, dubbed "The Equal Protection Clause," requires that "no State shall...deny to any person in its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws...
...Garrity Jr., one of the five magistrates who handles cases before the United States District Court of the District of Massachusetts. The 14 words that impelled his forced busing mandate lie at the tail of the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed three years after the 13th amendment freed black and all other slaves. This vague and pivotal half-sentence, dubbed "The Equal Protection Clause," requires that "no State shall...deny to any person in its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws...