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Wattenberg and Scammon give American liberalism much of the credit for improvements in black life. "Something did indeed happen in the 1960s: the logjam broke-politically, socially, legally, economically, even spiritually-and there is no going back." They may underrate the role of the decade's booming economy, which made life better for everyone. But they wisely take issue with the apocalyptic view of some liberals that life is inevitably becoming worse for blacks. As long as blacks are portrayed as "stereotyped examples of human misery and degradation," they write, whites will scarcely want to welcome them into their...
...raised the Gulf issue last Spring, never saw divestiture of Gulf stock as anything more than a symbolic action. But the PALC organizers were astute enough to understand that symbolic doesn't mean unimportant, and they believed that nationally, the issue of University investment policy was in a momentary logjam. They hoped that Harvard University, by making a solid commitment against colonialism, might be able to break the impasse. Perhaps they thought at the outset of their campaign that Harvard Administrators--feeling some shame for the participation of their country and their University in the destruction of Indochina--might intervene...
...Congress seems even more lugubrious than most. The second session, now five months old, has managed to pass only two important pieces of domestic legislation: the Federal Election Campaign Act and the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. The highly controversial revenue-sharing bill is caught in a legislative logjam on the House floor. In the Senate, debate on antiwar legislation seems destined to drag on long after the last American soldier leaves Viet...
Loosening Logjam. Can this be South Africa, the land long marred by an ugly policy of apartheid (separateness), which enables 3,800,000 whites to exert total dominance over 15 million black Africans, 2,000,000 Coloreds (half-breeds) and 600,000 Asians? The structure of apartheid, which the late Prime Minister Daniel Malan and his largely Dutch-descended Nationalists began to build in 1948, still towers over everything. No black can stay in a "white" hotel, own land or property in white areas, belong to a trade union, own a home, or vote in a countrywide election. Black political...
...Rogers visited Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt, winding up at the end of last week in Israel. There were certain dangers implicit in the tour. Simply by winging about the area in a great blue and white presidential 707, Rogers raised hopes that he would break the diplomatic logjam. If there is no progress?either on the Suez plan or the broader issue of an overall Arab-Israeli settlement?the U.S. can expect some harsh criticism. Rogers only fueled that feeling when he said last week: "There has never been, and may not again be for a long time...