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...what impressed Peck most about the Berrigans were their patriotism--their roots in the Midwest American heartland--and their discipline. Peck knew about neither Phil Berrigan's peace movement past, his hardheaded political analyses and "Just War" philosophy (no pacifist he), nor Dan's more cosmopolitan and poetic development. Sufficient for Peck were the facts that the Catonsville people spoke from their firsthand experiences in Latin American hills and Paris slums; that they then tried to change the government through normal channels; and that their action was non-violent, based on moral guidelines and designed to awaken religious resonances...
...event in Miguel Pereira was the first national women's congress held in Brazil, heartland of Latin American machismo, in 26 years. For all the fretting of the onlooking males, however, the meeting hardly foreshadowed a feminist revolution. For three days the women-white, mostly middleaged, middle class-hammered out resolutions on such matters as day-care centers and drugs, but that was about as far as they cared to go. Delegate Cilésia Furtado, 38, sighed that she was "turned off by most Women's Libbers in the U.S." It seems, she complained, "that women there...
...Providence turned their guns on a petroleum tank near Haiphong. In the sky, flights of 150 to 175 warplanes, including big B-52 bombers, began a systematic pounding of bridges, barracks, trucks, barges, rail junctions and other military targets in North Viet Nam's Red River Valley heartland. Some of the raids struck within 60 miles of the Chinese border. Daily, sometimes almost hourly, loudspeakers on Hanoi's streets screeched instructions: "Take to your shelters. The enemy is near...
...terms in the legislature, she was known as "the den mother of the Dirty Thirty," a coalition of reform-minded legislators who fought against the heavyhanded leadership of Speaker Mutscher. At first glance her candidacy seems hardly promising: a liberal in conservative country, a Catholic in the Baptist heartland-and an advocate of busing, liberalized abortion and marijuana laws, a state tax on corporate profits, elimination of the Texas Rangers and greater representation for blacks and Chicanos...
...jammed equipment to alternate frequencies and different antenna systems, but with no success. Even so, they knew what the electronic symptoms meant: for the first time in the war, the U.S. was sending its eight-jet B-52s to bomb targets in North Viet Nam's Red River heartland...