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Underscoring the contradictions of the American South, Alabama, the civil rights movement's most volatile battleground, will observe the third Monday in January as a dual holiday honoring the birthdays of King and Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In Selma, the city council voted over the protest of Mayor Joe Smitherman to approve a candlelight walk to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of a bloody 1965 clash between black marchers and police. In Birmingham, near the Sixteeth Avenue Baptist Church, where a bomb killed four little girls in 1963, a 7-ft.-tall bronze likeness of King was scheduled...
...return to democracy more than two years ago. Rockefeller, whose former employer remains a major Argentine creditor, was in Buenos Aires to discuss Latin American economic development. Seven people were injured and 81 arrested when 1,500 leftist demonstrators hurled rocks and eggs, smashed windows and set fires to protest what one group called "our dependence on North American imperialism." The continent's debt was also on the agenda last week in Washington, where Ronald Reagan praised visiting Ecuadoran President León Febres Cordero for his handling of the problem, calling him "an articulate champion of free enterprise...
...unilateral action and Doctorow (without accepting the apology) wryly suggested that Mailer was practicing "constructive engagement of the Reagan Administration." Shultz's arrival at the opening ceremony at the main branch of the New York Public Library was greeted by an army of the night, brandishing a protest signed by 65 of the nearly 800 writers attending the congress. Amid cries of "Read the petition!" the Secretary expressed unexceptionably liberal sentiments favoring diversity and debate and condemning censorship. Shultz added to his speech by declaring in a rather general way his belief that the McCarran-Walter Immigration...
...columnists are fifth columnists. Prominent for a moment, they rapidly go out of view, but the influence stays, and the impulse to contemplate abides. It's not a career deep down; it is a protest against being overwhelmed by the speed of things, against letting the world get away from us. When Dickens' daughter died, he was in London and his wife in the country; he wrote her a letter telling her at the outset, "You must read this letter very slowly." Joe Kraft died on Jan. 10. You must read his death very slowly. The missing piece...
...march along Pennsylvania Avenue to reaffirm their support for legal abortion and birth control. It was the largest women's rights demonstration since a 1978 rally for the never ratified Equal Rights Amendment, and the number of marchers completely eclipsed the 36,000 who attended Washington's annual antiabortion protest in January. The march, which was to be complemented by a similar demonstration in Los Angeles a week later, was meant to underscore poll results showing a majority of popular support for freedom of choice. "It's about time we show our numbers," said an exuberant Smeal. WASHINGTON Thanks...