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...loan guarantee to Chrysler. Goldschmidt's investigation convinced him that the auto manufacturers were in very deep trouble, even discounting the woes of a recession downturn. Two weeks ago, Goldschmidt gave the President a 20-minute graph and chart show to demonstrate the seriousness of Detroit's plight. Concerned, Carter immediately agreed to a meeting with the carmakers and United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser. While no specific action came out of the White House gathering, the fact that it was held could be the first sign of an intensified Administration effort to help Detroit...
...Thus the plight of the American hostages, who have now been moved from the Tehran embassy to some twelve locations throughout Iran, remained the same. In a flurry of witch hunting last week, the Tehran authorities interrogated several Western journalists and detained an American freelance writer, Cynthia Dwyer of Buffalo, as a "CIA spy." As for the hostages, their fate will be settled by the newly elected parliament, due to meet sometime in June, in the Iranians' own sweet time...
Jesus' call for his followers to be sensitive to the plight of the poor and oppressed is absent in the doctrines of the supposedly "Christian" political right. In its support of a balanced budget and a strong national defense, it is willing to starve social programs (and people) to feed an already bloated military machine...
...brother William, superintendent of the American School in Pakistan, had been visiting Tehran when the embassy was seized. Paul Keough argued that the emotionally wrenching sight of relatives pleading in Tehran for permission to see the hostages would distract world opinion from the "human indignity" of the captives' plight. Said he: "The main issue is that this is a violation of international law, whether they let the relatives in to visit...
Fatal Flowers, subtitled On Sin, Sex, and Suicide in the Deep South, is the author's attempt to describe the plight of such Southern womanhood by reporting how she grew up poor and frustrated in a region overripe with lust and repression: "What I had once seen as the condition of being female, I now saw as female and Southern. I perceived my mother, grandmothers, sister, daughters-and all the women whose roots I shared-as netted in one mutual silken bondage. Together, we were trapped in a morass of Spanish moss, Bible Belt guilt, and the pressures...