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More than a homosexual, I am a person: a person with most of the same goals in life and needs from life that heterosexuals have. The amount of love, and not the sexual object choice, determines the value of a relationship. The "problem of homosexuality" is misnamed. More accurate is the "problem of a society that refuses to accept (embrace?) minority behavior." The Indian experienced that problem; it killed him. The black man experienced that problem; it enslaved and ghettoized him. The homosexual experienced that problem; it castrated...
Certainly the U.S. will suffer serious political costs in liquidating a struggle in which we have excessively enmeshed ourselves, and it would be naive to pretend otherwise. But if we are sensible about it and do not blow up the dragons of catastrophe beyond life size, those costs need be only short term. In fact, if we learn the right lessons and resist drawing the wrong conclusions from this unhappy national experience, we may, over the long pull, emerge the stronger...
...struck by "how much of the California legend was true-the climate, the geography, the hordes of new Californians shucking off old ways and values and experimenting with the new"-sometimes compulsively, sometimes casually. "The more I got to know San Francisco, the more intrigued I became with its life style, its easy atmosphere, the narcissism of the city...
IMMEDIATELY after his televised account of the accident that cost Mary Jo Kopechne's life. Edward Kennedy enjoyed considerable public sympathy-a TIME-Louis Harris Poll showed. Since then, the Senator has kept silent about the case and has worked, through his lawyers, to alter the ground rules of an inquest into the death. Ted Kennedy has paid for his silence. A second poll last week found that Americans are markedly more skeptical about...
...concrete diagnosis, but not a cure. The situation is more serious than is expressed by Nixon." Brazilian Economist Roberto Campos was pleased with Nixon's approach, which was less condescending than past U.S. attitudes. "The U.S. today is much less certain that it understands the realities of life in Latin America," said Campos. "That is a healthy recognition." More characteristic, however, was the complaint aired by the Chilean paper Clarin, which claimed that "frustration was the sentiment after the speech...