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Even if HUD increases its efforts-as it shows solid signs of doing-the department could still run up against the legal defenses of recalcitrant suburbs, which could plead that the proposed housing would violate their zoning. HUD has had trouble enough accomplishing a simpler task: integrating low-income minorities into middle-class white neighborhoods within a city's boundaries. During the early '70s, for example, middle-class whites in the Forest Hills section of New York City bitterly fought a proposed housing project. They succeeded in reducing its size from about 830 apartments to 430 and increasing...
...says Ian Smith. "In the past, when they came by the hundreds, they were killed by the hundreds. If in the future they come by the thousands, they will be killed by the thousands." Despairs a Rhodesian lawyer who opposes Smith's leadership: "All we can do is plead with Smith for some sense from the sidelines. He is both stubborn and blind to reality, but it seems we're stuck with...
...time when voters' distrust of Washington, runs deep, Carter considers his status a campaign advantage. "I have been accused of being an outsider," he says. "I plead guilty. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans are also outsiders. We are not going to get changes by simply shifting around the same groups of insiders, the same tired old rhetoric, the same unkept promises and the same divisive appeals to one party, one faction, one section of the country, one race or religion or one interest group. The insiders have had their chances and they have not delivered. Their time...
Like many other Americans, Bucher has been wondering whether Patty Hearst could convincingly plead that she was psychologically coerced into bank robbery. Bucher does not presume to know what her state of mind was, he told TIME Correspondent David Lee, but he argues that "no one is immune. A person can be made to do damned near anything under threat if he is determined to remain alive...
...change hoteldom than anyone since Conrad Hilton, but also is the first major talent in his profession to own as well as design buildings. His trademark is the architecture of entertainment in cities. "I have been accused of doing up a sophisticated Disneyland for adults," he says. "I plead guilty...