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...clear majority of Americans are either white male anglo-saxons or would like to think of themselves as part of the white male anglo-saxon mainstream. And in the South, where everybody attributes the racial gap in voting patterns to blind racism, the Democrats have yet to give 'jes plain folks a good reason not to vote...
...airy living room of their log house on the west bank of the Susitna River, about 100 miles north of Anchorage on the way to Fairbanks. The morning she refers to was March 5, 1959, when Carol, a wan, pretty girl of 22, left Detroit with her lean, plain-spoken husband and their eight-month-old daughter Lindy Lou for a new life. Their companions were some 35 other city folk, most of them from the Detroit area, who set out in a caravan of cars, pickup trucks and house trailers to take up land in Alaska...
...bells tolled, Popieluszko's plain wooden coffin was carried into the churchyard and lowered into a brick-lined grave. Someone had removed the heart-shaped bouquet with the letter S (for Solidarity) set in white against a background of red carnations, which had adorned the casket. But after the funeral, thousands of Poles marched toward the city center carrying Solidarity banners. Riot police deployed along the way appeared to be under orders to keep their distance; there were no reports of violence to mar the day of mourning...
Last week that apathy vanished. The catalyst was dramatic television footage, shot by a BBC team and aired in the U.S. by NBC, that showed grim scenes of emaciated children and rows of corpses laid out on the cracked Ethiopian plain. Within hours, contributions from individual American citizens began pouring in to such relief agencies as Catholic Relief Services, Oxfam America and Grassroots International. All have been issuing warnings of the impending disaster in Africa for years. The U.S. Government added $10 million to the $35 million already allotted for food aid to the beleaguered country, doubling last year...
...both letters, the accused military men made it plain how strongly they will contest the findings against them. Insisting on his innocence, Ver charged that the majority report's conclusions were "farfetched" and "no better I than a series of inductive arguments"; he demanded a separate and immediate trial. The embattled suspects did their best to turn the Agravatars' own strength against them. "The board has been waylaid by the enemies of the state," charged Olivas. Ver accused the panel of being "a tool to destroy the protectors of the republic...