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Each week TIME brings readers stories and pictures of major news events, but our editors also strive to present the quieter, more slowly developing trends and realities that affect our world. The plight of young black men in America is one such undercurrent, and in this issue we explore the subject at greater than usual length...
...ghettos and the poverty cycle, noted Chicago Bureau Chief Jack White, has concentrated on teenage mothers and the children they were raising, to the exclusion of the men who were the fathers. White was convinced that the story of these young men needed to be told. To put their plight in context, White spoke with a dozen scholars who have studied the under class and drew on his own firsthand knowledge as well: "Some of the guys I went to high school with are in jail now. Some have been strung out on drugs. Some have been killed...
...surface when the subject turns to Bernhard Goetz and the shots he fired at four young blacks aboard a Manhattan subway train. A nation that would like to believe it can shun stereotypes, that cherishes the ideals of equality and brotherhood, continues to be haunted by the plight of a segment of its citizenry that remains mired in a seemingly intractable dilemma of race and poverty: the young, black males of its underclass...
...others sharply dispute this notion. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of ! New York, who brought attention to the plight of the black family in a controversial report two decades ago, called the Administration study "less a policy paper than a tantrum. They're not writing from facts. This is just ideology." Indeed, there is little hard evidence to show that welfare alone encourages family breakdown. A study by Sociologists David Ellwood and Mary Jo Bane, of Harvard's Kennedy School, found no correlation between the birth rates for unwed mothers and welfare-benefit levels from state to state. They argue...
...sure, the plight of the hostages presented Reagan with an excruciating dilemma. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, on a visit to New York City last week, summarized it to TIME editors this way: "I think that every democracy is occasionally facing a contradiction in values. On one hand, you are decided to fight terrorism. On the other hand, you must remain concerned for the lives and safety of individual people . . . What is the balance...