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...Delta Sigma Theta, held the first of 43 local conferences it has planned on the subject. At Nashville's Fisk University, about 200 scholars and officials from all over the country gathered for marathon discussions - alternately erudite and emotional, brooding and hopeful - on the black family's plight...
Most impressive has been the aplomb of Peking and its fresh, well-groomed teams of multilingual emissaries. China has succeeded in courting Pakistan without alienating India; it has wooed the moderate gulf states and also convinced the Palestine Liberation Organization that Peking alone understands its plight. Most important of all, China seems close to recovering sovereignty over the British colony of Hong Kong on its own terms. Last week, while visiting Peking for the twelfth round of talks, Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe became the first British official to concede publicly that Britain will return the colony to China when...
...primary system in the South will hurt Black voters by leading to the election of Southern Republicans, he glosses over the fact that historically, Southern Democrats have been the most overtly racist members of the U.S power elite. Ultimately, it makes no real difference to the plight of Blacks in Mississippi if democrat John Stennis remains their senator of if some right-wing Republican oust him. Indeed, they might well be better off with the Republican. But by simplistically linking Blacks to a Democratic Party that has never adequately addressed their concerns, Hirschorn makes evident a political naivete...
...article's depiction of Asian culture is flawed, its conception of Asian society is even more fallacious. While Newsweek on Campus draws attention to "industrious" and "ambitious" Asians on American campuses, the article ignores the plight of the Chinese working in Chinatown sweatshops. While Asians are over-represented in a number of technical fields, they are also over-represented in the garment worker occupation, as well as the restaurant worker category. It is true that Asian incomes exceed the national average, yet Asians live in Pacific, Eastern, and metropolitan areas with costs of living that far exceed the national average...
Some observers quickly suggested, however, that McGrath was just bowing before White House pressure, but he vehemently denied it. Consent decrees normally require properties to be divested before a merger takes place. McGrath defended the new decision by by pointing to the economic plight of the trouobled industry. Steel plants are operating at less than 80% of capacity, and imports have taken 26% of the domestic market...