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The battle began a decade ago, when the N.A.A.C.P. led a boycott against white merchants, some of whom were public officials, in Port Gibson, Miss. The aim was to force such changes as the desegregation of the local schools, bus stations and hospital, the hiring of black policemen and the...
The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, meanwhile, has filed a class-action suit on behalf of all the children who may not in fact be orphans, including those who have been ruled eligible for adoption. The center, challenging the validity of the service's decisions, is asking...
Scarcely anyone who was involved in the operations-bugging phones, breaking into houses, slipping LSD to unsuspecting bar patrons, planning assassination attempts, undermining governments-seems to have wondered whether he was doing anything wrong. The values of the men who operated in the shadowy underground world were summed up by...
A recurrent theme of the issue is that claims on government have grown out of control. Daniel Bell, professor of sociology at Harvard, calls this phenomenon the "revolution of rising entitlements." People expect more and more of their political leaders, he writes, and insist upon increasing government help as their...
A further step she proposes is to integrate fully all law enforcement agencies, "the nation's entire lawful power structure...(which) must be stripped of male dominance and control." This is absolutely necessary, she argues, in order to eliminate machismo, and if "women are to cease being a colonized protectorate...