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Ralph Paffenbarger gives strong evidence that burning up the calories will lower the chance of heart trouble, but does Ralph follow his own advice? Emphatically, yes! He recently finished a 100-mile trail race in northern California, and was one of three finishers out of twelve starters in the time of 26 hours...
...Jews' "natural and eternal right" to the West Bank-was angrily criticized at home by the 60,000 Israelis who have settled in the occupied territories. "What right does anyone have to tell people they will not be in Israel?" demanded David Margalit, who lives in the northern Sinai settlement of Yamit. Cried an American emigrant who also lives in Yamit: "I didn't come from Miami Beach to live in Egypt!" As settlers demonstrated outside, a member of Begin's own Likud coalition, Moshe Shamir, argued their case in the Knesset: "My heart is laden with...
THESE CHANGES AFFECT the whole city, all five boroughs. But Brooklyn alone reeled under further blows. Southern Brooklyn has through the years become predominantly white, northern Brooklyn predominately black. Brooklyn public schools reflected this state of affairs, with the southern schools mostly white, better funded and academically superior. Two years ago the State Commissioner of Education decided to bus white kids north and black kids south to increase racial integration. To white parents this meant sending their kids into dangerous, crime-ridden neighborhoods and inferior schools simply to please the state government far off in Albany. To principals and staff...
Much of the northern half of Brooklyn is turning into Bushwicks. The white neighborhoods in the south half--Midwood, Flatlands, Brighton Beach, Mill Basin, Canarsie, Bay Ridge--look north and fear, because the poverty seems to be creeping ever closer. And for many of these people there's nowhere left to run. They're willing to make their stand, as they put it, because somebody has to. The older people especially, with fixed incomes and meager lives, lock themselves in at night to avoid becoming victims and tremble at approaching footsteps in the day--they have no place...
Besides businessmen, the movement has other converts and friends in high places. The most notable: Jimmy Carter, of course, and Oregon's Senator Mark Hatfield, one of the first Northern politicians to espouse Evangelical values at a time when religion, and that kind of religion particularly, was a distinct political liability except in the South...