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Taking a strong stand on racial politics and fair representation in America, Julian Bond, chair of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), addressed a crowd of several hundred people at the Institute of Politics' conference on minority representation Friday...
...DIED. JULIAN GREEN, 97, enigmatic American author embraced by France as a distinguished homme de lettres; in Paris. The bilingual Green compared writing in English to "wearing clothes that were not made for me." He wrote under the name Julien to further Francofy himself, penning more than 25 darkly brooding novels, plays and essays and Journal, a multivolume diary of his life...
...year-olds can't understand Miranda rights. In an important case in 1986, the New York supreme court issued a ruling that made it more difficult, at least in that state, to question very young children suspected of crimes. Three years earlier, a seven-year-old Queens boy named Julian B. had allegedly pushed two-year-old Reggie Clegg from the roof of an apartment building. Under questioning, Julian admitted that he had shoved Reggie from the roof after an argument over a toy car. But the court found that the police hadn't made a necessary "extra effort...
...piece on the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and its new chairman, Julian Bond [DIVIDING LINE, July 27], Jack E. White was very supportive of Bond's leadership. But Bond's devilishly elegant plan of affirmative action is primarily for the black fortunate, the black elite. There is little benefit in it for anyone but a group of handpicked nonwhites and middle-class white women. Bond's affirmative action works best for professionals and those in the middle class. He suggests that the black community can be developed without a preference for its most needy element. This...
...stabilized at 400,000. A bevy of impressive talents like youth director Jamal Bryant has joined the staff. And the N.A.A.C.P. has recovered the impatient, insistent but always dignified voice that made it the most important force in the fight against segregation. As the new chairman of the board, Julian Bond, 58, declared in his keynote speech, "I promise you'll be reading about the N.A.A.C.P. because we are fighting for civil rights and not because we are fighting each other...