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...Colf's plight came to the attention of his granddaughter, Judy Kerrigan, 36, who lives in Reseda. She recovered about $1,400 of his contributions from such beneficiaries as Voters for Reagan and Americans for Reagan. But other groups failed to reply to Kerrigan's entreaties...
CESAR CHAVEZ, the head of the United Farm Workers (UFW), was in town this week to drum up support for a new grape boycott. It seems the governor of California, George Deukmejian, has turned a deaf ear to the plight of the impoverished--in some cases, starving--laborers, in sharp contrast to the open-arms policies of Chavez old friend, former governer Jerry Brown. Chavez objects specifically to Deukmejian's recent line-veto of an appropriation by the state congress which was to speed up the collection of millions of dollars in back pay owed the workers. But that issue...
...April 4, 1968 was a day of crucifixion," Jackson said. "I hope that April 4, 1985 will be a day of resurrection. I hope that day we will roll the stone away" and begin making progress toward improving the plight of minorities in the white-ruled country
...positions is not, as some on both sides of the debate would have us believe, one of morality (divestiture) versus pragmatism (conditional investment). The fact that we discuss our policy towards that country at all means that we are, to some extent, hit in the jugular vein by the plight of South African Blacks and coloreds. But our outrage at the immorality of apartheid does not cloud our conviction that divestiture is the best practical way Harvard can bring about substantive change in that society...
...that I don't care. Like most citizens--not just liberals, but those across the entire political spectrum--I am deeply concerned about the plight of Blacks in South Africa. And I guess that, when asked, I probably even support Harvard's divestiture from all companies doing business in that nation...