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...impracticalities. Moreover, critics pointed out that the program hired some almost-illiterate hoods at yearly salaries of up to $6,500 each to teach subjects like remedial reading. Since Fry began to bypass Chicago Mayor Dick Daley's administration, the police have gone out of their way to harass the Rangers and Fry's church. Last week at McClellan's hearings, some Chicago types weighed in with a sulfurous assault on the preacher, his project...
...deeply preoccupied with politics and with social ferment at home. Yet the events in France, with the sudden tottering of that tall, human statue, brought a sense of shock and unease. Admittedly, Charles de Gaulle has done his best to harass and embarrass the U.S. in the world. Yet no French leader of this century could have risen to the time as he did. He was a hero because he seemed to outstare history, reversing trends and forces that had seemed irrevocable. In the decade since the general swept into power, France has been transformed from the sick...
...arbitrary conglomeration of hostile tribes. The Ibos are motivated by a principle, too: self-preservation. As the Oxford-educated Ojukwu told his people after the fall of Port Harcourt: "We shall all have to return to our villages and homes, if necessary behind enemy lines, and torment and harass the federal troops at every turn; we are fighting this dreadful war not for conquest but survival...
...child is unwanted), but who's morally wrong in these cases? It's just possible that a few of those students who came out for morals meant that they wouldn't want their kids to be as immoral as the people who today oppose revision of abortion laws, who harass and actually arrest a man for disseminating birth-control information, and who try generally to smother spontaneity--sexual or otherwise--and to perpetuate guilt and shame. I want my children to have higher "morals" than the present generation, too. I don't want to see them adhering to any double...
...Contributing to the delinquency of a minor carries a maximum penalty of a $500 fine and a year's imprisonment," Fauvre said yesterday. "But we are convinced that the police are doing this merely to harass us; the charges will have to be dropped. They just want to keep the hippie element out of Somerville...