Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gap between black income and white income is widening anew. Black unemployment remains double the rate for whites. Most black children still attend largely black schools. But there is no rioting in the streets, the ghettos are not aflame, and, except where busing is an explosive issue, one of the most contentious and compelling stories of the last decade has faded from U.S. front pages. Writes New York Times Editorialist Roger Wilkins in the May issue of Esquire: "When the traumatic upheavals of the Sixties ended, it was easy for whites to retreat once more into the fantasy world...
...their difficulties, the 300 black newspapers in the U.S. still help bridge the gap between white coverage and black reality. Profiles of five of the biggest and most influential...
...prosecution) was reduced to a lesser offense and made subject to a two-year statute. In December 1972 the state re-enacted the death penalty and put capital offenses back on the books. Unconsidered was the fact that arrests for any murders that took place during the five-month gap would still have to be made within two years...
...faltering campaign of Gov. George Wallace of Alabama fared poorly against Carter in Tennessee where the former Georgia governor had opened up a 78 per cent to 11 per cent gap, and in Kentucky, where Carter won by 59 per cent to 17 per cent...
...great gap between church teaching and practice troubles Cincinnati's Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin, president of the U.S. Bishops' Conference. Said Bernardin in an interview in U.S. Catholic: "So many consider themselves good Catholics, even though their beliefs and practices seem to conflict with the official teaching in the church. This is almost a new concept of what it means to be a Catholic today...