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...news feature, "Razo Case Raises Wide Questions," Jeffrey S. Nordhaus drew on several long conversations with me and others in an effort to portray more general "Minority Plight." As I remarked to him, I was seeking to disaggregate and "complexify" the story, which was inevitably getting too long for daily jounalism. Mr. Nordhaus wrote with care and sympathy. But he reverses the races in one episode I told him. I was seeking to illustrate the ways a Black table in a House may form, and the difficulty white students or even Tutors would have in going to sit down...
...movies." O'Neill had to correct him: "No, Mr. President. You're thinking of Grover Cleveland Alexander, the ball player." Reagan's tendency to see every problem in the most limited personal terms infuriated O'Neill. In arguing against some Social Security cuts, O'Neill described the plight of a girl who would be losing her college benefits. Reagan called in an aide and said, "Let's see if we can take care of this girl." O'Neill jumped in. "I'm not here to talk about one girl. I'm using her as an example." Writes O'Neill...
...highest proportions in the world. One result: North Korea is so broke that even China and the Soviet Union, Kim's two strongest military allies, have delayed oil shipments to the country because Pyongyang has been slow to pay its bills. Western observers also feel that North Korea's plight will never improve so long as the Kim regime holds to its doctrine of Juche, an ideology of extreme self-reliance that basically rejects cooperation with foreigners. Juche is closely associated with Kim himself, who has ruled the country since...
Since January, Italy has been host to an estimated 4,500 Poles who hold easily acquired Italian tourist visas and have no intention of returning home. Pope John Paul II is concerned about the plight of his compatriots and "is doing everything to discourage this exodus," according to a Roman Catholic charity official. But because Italy adheres to the Helsinki human rights accord, officials have ruled out cutbacks in tourist visas for Poles...
...Chun Doo Hwan, striking for better pay has been almost unheard of. Walkouts were virtually banned, and unions were strictly under the thumb of Seoul. But since June, when Chun capitulated to popular demands for democratic reform, both the government and the opposition have expressed sympathy for the workers' plight. "It is true that the government has sided with management in the past out of the need for growth and stability," said Roh Tae Woo, who heads the ruling Democratic Justice Party, "but it must now side with labor to compensate for sacrifices made for the nation's economic development...