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...purchases, but so far there has been no decision. According to a Dayan aide, there are tens of thousands of acres of land in the occupied areas that could be bought from Arab landowners who are willing to sell; purchases have been held up for lack of a govern ment policy...
Malcolm X was killed by a black man. George Wallace was allegedly shot by a follower-though Arthur Bremer was evidently bird-dogging other candidates with aimless hostility. The list is endless: personal peril now climbs aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2, hides in a locked apart ment-or in a suburban shopping center as it did recently when a janitor gunned down a handful of strollers in North Carolina. If the earth is unsafe the air bristles with danger. Skyjackings create such anxiety that last week, when four black men seized a Western Airlines jetliner, it was easy to believe...
Meanwhile, Britain's proconsul in Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, persuaded four prominent Catholics to join an eleven-man advisory commission. Earlier in the week, he received a delegation of women from a Derry ghetto. They were the first delegation of Catholics to meet with the govern ment since the British began interning terrorist suspects without trial last August. The biggest issue preventing a Catholic reconciliation with the govern ment is internment, even though Whitelaw has released 377 of the 929 men originally held in prison camps. Last week Gerry Fitt, leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, accused...
...decision in December. The CRIMSON broke the story of the department's vote five days before Kissinger's tenure was scheduled to lapse, and his formal resignation came the following day. Queried about the CRIMSON report, he played coy and said, "This is a matter for the Govern-ment department and I would not know. I just resigned...
Black graduates, at the moment, are proportionately having less trouble than whites. Job offers are down, but by only 10% says the director of a place ment service for 60 Negro colleges. More important, though, the opportunities are wider. The proportion of blacks going into teaching has dropped from 80% to 46%, while the number going into business administration is rising as more and more corporations seek to acquire an integrated image. The rare black Ph.D. this year can command a salary $4,000 or so higher than a white with the same training...