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...minority taste. The Founding Fathers in their Enlightenment glow certainly considered liberty a universal principle. They also considered the emerging U.S. as a model of liberty for the rest of the world. But they had no illusions about how easy it might be to establish democratic governments elsewhere. Jefferson questioned whether democracy could flourish in all circumstances, suggesting that it might be effective only at certain times and places where conditions allowed. Today in most parts of the world it does not exist or is not understood. It is difficult to achieve in tribal, rigidly hierarchical or other traditional societies...
Telexes were down. The lights in the hotel were out. Newspaper correspondents, like Edward Schumacher of the New York Times and G. Jefferson Price III of the Baltimore Sun, dictated a few paragraphs over ABC's open line during a lull in the barrage. Their reports, taped by ABC, were then passed on to their papers...
...Jefferson Davis stood on the west portico to take his oath as President of the Confederacy in 1861. George Wallace stood on the same spot 100 years later, took his first oath as Governor and promised, "Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! And segregation forever!" From where Wallace stood, one can look across the way and see Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, the civil rights headquarters in the days of the bus boycott that began the long American journey...
Republican candidate Dr. Mildred F. Jefferson said "the only way the citizen of limited means can have any balance with the citizens of larger means, who can give $1000, is through the PACs." Jefferson said she believes all PACs are legitimate, including those representing industrial interests...
Other candidates in the race include Kennedy, State Sen. George Bachrach (D-Watertown), State Representatives Thomas J. Vallely (D-Back Bay) and Thomas M. Gallagher (D-Brighton), King, James Spiegal of Watertown, Republicans Clark Abt and Mildred Jefferson, and Cambridge activist Carla Johnston, a Democrat...