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...DIED. Patricia Roberts Harris, 60, lawyer and educator, the first black woman to hold a Cabinet post or serve as a U.S. ambassador; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. The daughter of a railroad-car waiter, she graduated first in her class at George Washington University Law School and later became dean of the law school at Howard University. In 1965 President Johnson appointed her Ambassador to Luxembourg. As Jimmy Carter's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and then of Health, Education and Welfare, she was a forthright advocate of government intervention to solve social problems and a firm administrator...
Among those allegedly bugged: Arthur Scargill, president of the National Union of Mineworkers; Harriet Harman, the former legal officer for the National Council for Civil Liberties and now a Member of Parliament; and Patricia Hewitt, the N.C.C.L.'s general secretary, currently an adviser to Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock. Orga- nizations supposedly placed under surveillance because they were thought to be subversive included the N.C.C.L. and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament...
...What happened was unjust," said Selma Librarian Patricia Blalock. "Some people reacted badly. But I think you should give a town another chance. We've tried to change." To the Rev. Frederick Reese, a Selma black leader who had invited King to check out the city's denial of voting rights in the first place, the 20-year evolution has been "miserably slow." Now principal of the Eastside Junior High School, Reese pointed to two private white academies that have opened since the public schools began to integrate in 1965. "There is toleration," he said. "Toleration is a step forward...
...Oral History project, which was completed this year, is comprised of oral memoirs of a selected group of older Black women who "made significant contributions of varying kinds to American society in the early and middle decades of the 20th century," said Schlesinger Library Director Patricia King...
Since December, seven Americans, including the DEA agent, have disappeared. Benjamin and Patricia Mascarenas of Ely, Nev., and Dennis and Rose Carlson, of Redding, Calif., all Jehovah's Witnesses, are believed to have been abducted while distributing evangelical literature. On the night of Jan. 30, John Walker and Alberto Radelat failed to return to Walker's Guadalajara apartment after they went out for a drink...