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...Goodman '79, a news editor for WBAI/Pacifica Radio, and Allan Nairn, a reporter for the New Yorker, who both spoke last night at the Kennedy School, witnessed the November 12 massacre and were nearly killed themselves by the Indonesian soldiers. The soldiers beat the reporters with the butts of their M-16s, fracturing Nairn's skull, The two journalists believe that it is only the fact that they are American that saved their lives...
...Goodman and Nairn arrived in East Timor, which is off the North coast of Australia, to cover the visit of a United Nations/Portuguese team investigating the island's political future. Portugal ruled the island for 270 years until its withdrawal...
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack F. Kemp has been talking about welfare refrom for years. Even Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) admits that many welfare recipients are caught in a "cycle of dependency." In Thursday's Boston Globe, Ellen Goodman came out in support of using welfare reforms to discourage women on welfare from having children out of wedlock. Are they too using code words...
...OPEN ROAD. Oscar-winning screenwriter Steve Tesich (Breaking Away) prefers the stage, where he can blend metaphysical ambition and gothic excess. In this tale of strugglers on the loose, there are echoes of Kerouac, Beckett and Reaganomics interwoven with Tesich's moral fervor. At Chicago's Goodman Theater...
Large majorities of women have consistently credited feminism with improving their lives and winning them access to public life, jobs, credit and educational opportunities. But that access brought hard choices. "When women were all outsiders and men were all insiders, the goals were easy," says Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman. "Barriers were broken. But changes that depended on new social policy never were made. The part of the change that would make it easier for women to work never got put in place. We still don't have child care or family medical leave. Today women are working very hard...