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...delegates of the United Presbyterian Church gathered in Minneapolis last week, they were less concerned with religious matters than social and political issues. The 180th General Assembly heard the Rev. Ralph Abernathy plead his poor people's cause, a plea which the delegates answered with a recommendation that their church donate $100,000 to the march on Washington. They agreed, moreover, to invest 30% of the church's unrestricted funds in housing and business enterprises in low-interest, high-risk areas. In a dramatic effort to invest church services with contemporary relevance, a new communion litany, which...
Some pictures are put-ons that seem to plead for a tacit agreement with their audience: what is to be viewed is beneath contempt, therefore it is beyond criticism. Disarmed, audiences are presumably free to enjoy the movie in the same way they appreciate the sheer ghastliness of Mrs. Miller's wobbly warbling or the fruity falsetto of Tiny Tim. Two current examples come from...
GROUPS do not achieve power merely by resolving to achieve power, but do so through the cumulative exercise of their influence on substantive issues. In most cases, students who accomplish reforms are those who articulate and organize such influence rather than those who plead for an expansion of student jurisdiction into areas several times removed from their immediate concerns. This is profoundly true at Harvard, which some-what paradoxically gives its students more freedom and less participation on policy-making committees than would be their lot at most public institutions. Harvard's governmental structure makes it pointless for students...
...truck driver, was taken from Connecticut to New Jersey and tied to a tree (he suffered rope burns). The lawyers argued that since the death penalty could only be imposed by a jury, the defendants were being made to risk a harsher punishment if they chose jury trial; by pleading guilty or by asking to be tried by a judge alone, they would not face death. Speaking for a 6-2 majority, Justice Potter Stewart found the argument persuasive. "The inevitable effect," he wrote, "is, of course, to discourage assertion of the Fifth Amendment right not to plead guilty...
Conditional Concessions. Japan, dependent on the U.S. to absorb 30% of its exports, last month sent eight top businessmen to Washington to plead against such backward steps. The delegation returned to Tokyo in gloom. "We are not optimistic at all," said the group's leader, Chairman Kiichiro Sato of Mitsui Bank. "Japanese business must start thinking seriously of countermeasures." As the Japanese see it, the repercussions of U.S. protectionism, both economically and politically, are unestimable...