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...farms, is expanding strongly. Its biggest manufacturer, Boeing, has a $5 billion backlog of orders. Its two major cities?Seattle (pop. 496,000) and Portland (377,000)?are bustling, clean and eminently livable. There are too few blacks for any real racial problems, and the small Indian minority???.8% of the population?is fighting in the courts, not the streets, for such goals as regaining water rights and tribal lands. In the Northwest, the issues that raise tempers and rile voters involve keeping the water clean to help the salmon and steelhead runs, keeping the air so clear that...
Deprived Minority. The act strengthened the iron-fisted and arrogant rule of Ulster's Protestant majority. In many ways, Northern Ireland resembled a Southern U.S. state, like Mississippi or Alabama, where a minority???in Ireland's case, of Catholics rather than blacks?was systematically deprived of social and political justice. Catholics were herded into grimy urban ghettos like Londonderry's Bogside or Belfast's dank Falls Road. A graduation certificate from a Catholic school was usually enough to disqualify a man from a good job: in Ulster, Catholic unemployment is as much as twice the province's average. The persuasive...
When Mr. Warren had done, grey-bearded Representative Cooper of Wisconsin got the floor to present a minority???the Wisconsin?report. He was given ten minutes to speak in addition to his time for reading his platform. He spoke well, and although the audience was against him, it demanded more time for him. He quit when his speaking time was up and began to read. Some of the minority planks were loudly hissed and booed. A few received mild applause. When he finished, he moved his platform be adopted. Mr. Warren moved the majority report be adopted...
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