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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Born to a working-class family in a rough part of Washington, Kenneth Glover thinks he was lucky to get out alive. "One-third of the friends I grew up with are dead," he says. "Another third are in jail or on dope. The rest of us just made it." He did more than just make it. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland, the Chicago investment counselor recently co- founded the Harold Washington Foundation. Named for the late Chicago mayor whom Glover once served as campaign manager, it provides grants to blacks for education, health care...
Nevertheless, the decline of the underclass imposes a psychological burden, in part because whites remain far too willing to associate all blacks with welfare dependency, crime and broken families. Moreover, many middle-class blacks feel personally guilty about the unpromising prospects of poorer blacks. That may be the most unfair burden of all, since the black middle class by itself does not have nearly enough resources to lift the underclass into the mainstream. Patricia Grayson speaks for many affluent blacks when she observes, "One person can do only so much. I think it's unfair for people...
...trade restraints begin to fall this month, beef sales in Japan are likely to boom. Cuts like filet mignon, which sells for up to $43 per lb. in Tokyo, should become much more affordable. Thanks in part to spacious grazing land and plentiful feed, American-grown beef is much less expensive to produce than the Japanese variety. "In three to five years, we expect to be selling three times our current monthly volume of 1,200 head of cattle," says Kazuhiro Ogasawara, vice president of Mt. Shasta Beef...
...first, Bush swore that he would "take no part, directly or indirectly, in any partisan political activity of any kind." But that didn't satisfy Nunn and Jackson. They demanded a more explicit promise. Finally, and over Bush's objections, Ford sent Congress a letter ruling out Bush as a potential vice- presidential candidate. "Yeah, we beat him back then," says Nunn, "but you notice where he's sitting today." As for '92 and an ultimate Bush-Nunn face-off, that could make the present skirmish look like child's play...
Nonetheless, players at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue who just a fortnight ago spoke of working together have dissolved their fragile partnership and reverted to form. Democrats now speak openly of responding to Bush's budget proposals with a plan of their own. For its part, the White House hinted that it may soon ask Congress for renewed nonmilitary aid to the Nicaraguan contras, a red flag to Democrats who repeatedly fought over the contras with the Reagan Administration. Meanwhile, the public is left with an image of the Senate as a cockpit of partisan squabbling, the White House...