Word: overnighters
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...drop in the bucket, but no one would disagree that once you have a whole lot of drops in the bucket, it tips over," says Ball. "Neither are we calling for a quick fix, a cure-all for Apartheid that will alone cause a transferral of South Africa overnight. What we are saying is that Harvard can't shirk its responsibilitity to play a part along with individual church groups, states, and voters who are also awakening to responsibilities...
Guernsey said the shelter, which he founded with the Phillips Brooks House, is an emergency overnight shelter run by students with 23-24 mattresses. The shelter is open every night during the winter, he added...
...prism of Moscow-Washington-Peking politics. I once had an argument about all this with Vadim Zagladin, deputy to Boris Ponomarev, chief of the Central Committee's International Department. Speaking of Africa, I remarked on the futility of "playing with some pissant little 'liberation' committees that come into being overnight and disappear after a few months." Zagladin's response was revealing: "You sound just like your boss. Gromyko has no smell for the ideological side of things. He's just too pragmatic, and so are you. You Foreign Ministry people don't understand the power of Communist ideas...
...rearm an unwilling Britain against the onslaught of Nazism. Weinberger was never viewed as a hawk in earlier phases of his public career, notably as Budget Director and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon and Ford Administrations. Yet when Weinberger returned to Washington in 1981, almost overnight he began sounding Cassandra-like warnings about the Soviet Union's impending military threat. What shocked him most, according to associates, was a series of intelligence briefings that documented the extent of Soviet technological progress during his six years out of office. "I was astounded," Weinberger told Writer Theodore White...
...People must address the question of whether human beings in the U.S. have a right to better shelter than a dumpster," says Gary Blasi, a Los Angeles lawyer for the homeless. In Washington, Homeless Advocate Snyder managed to get a referendum passed "guaranteeing adequate overnight shelter," which if approved by Congress could make the city responsible for housing 5,000 to 15,000 people a night. Because last week's freeze served to focus national attention, Snyder said, "we were rooting for the cold." He is afraid, though, that the homeless may soon be conveniently forgotten, returning to their semivisible...