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...horrors of Kunta's ocean crossing are based on familiar scholarship But while returning from Africa on a modern freighter, Haley also forced himself to sleep half naked on a rough plank in the ship's airless hold. It was his way of trying to dissolve time and the cultural insulation that can prevent a writer from telling his story. What a story it turns out to be. The 17-year-old Kunta Kinte is sold to a Spotsylvania County, Va., planter for $850 and renamed Toby. But Kunta does not tame easily. Following his fourth escape attempt...
...South Carolina's Republican Senator Strom Thurmond is the man who, as a Democratic Governor in 1948, led a Southern walkout in protest against a civil rights plank in the national Democratic platform. Running for President as a Dixiecrat, Thurmond carried four Deep South states. He switched to the Republican Party in 1968, and later became an architect of Richard Nixon's 1972 "Southern strategy." Today he eagerly displays to visitors in his office a two-page list of "accomplishments in behalf of blacks." Items: "Assisted Mrs. Victoria DeLee in expediting day-care funds for Dorchester County"; "Cosponsored bill...
...Republican platform is, to a large extent, a Reagan manifesto to which the Ford forces acquiesced in the interests of party harmony. Still, about the only part of the platform that Ford will have trouble living with is the foreign policy plank's implied rebuke of detente with the Soviet Union. One large question for the Ford campaign now is to what extent the Reagan forces are satisfied and will actively work for the ticket. William Rusher, publisher of the National Review and an ideological force behind the idea of a third-party breakaway, admitted last week at the Kansas...
...refuses to back a constitutional amendment banning abortion because he believes that women have a legal right to decide for themselves. Last week about a dozen Catholic leaders, including Terence Cardinal Cook of New York and John Cardinal Cody of Chicago, wrote to protest the Democratic platform plank on abortion, which is almost identical to Carter's position...
...Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, booed and hooted in 1968 for unleashing his clubbing cops against antiwar protesters and banned altogether in 1972 by the overzealous George McGovern reformists, was back at his pink-faced best, basking in interviews, murdering the language in a forgettable speech explaining the urban affairs plank of the party's bland rock-no-boats platform...