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Perhaps the greatest social challenge to our nation is to realize the enormous potential of our racial, ethnic and cultural diversity. Creating a climate in which each of us is truly comfortable with difference is not an easy task. It requires training and commitment to treat multiethnicity as the essence of our country. Burt E. Schuman, Executive Director Panel of Americans, Inc. New York City Dipping Snuff and Chewing Tobacco...
...lose ferocity against one another. Homosexual rape has long been commonplace, and stabbings are now epidemic, averaging 19 a month, in contrast to about nine a month in 1984. Assailants wield sharpened combs and toothbrushes, melted-down margarine containers and other makeshift daggers. The usual motive is simple racial hatred among blacks, Hispanics and Anglos...
Boston's public schools have been a national symbol of racial conflict for more than a decade. But last week black, Hispanic and white members of the city's school committee united to elect Boston's first black school superintendent, Laval Wilson, 49, a no-nonsense administrator who has led the public schools in Rochester since 1980. "I'm thrilled," said School Committee President John Nucci, a resident of the blue-collar East Boston neighborhood, adding, "We're off to an optimistic start...
...meantime, eleven more West European nations and Australia announced that they were withdrawing their ambassadors from Pretoria for "consultations." And in Washington, Congress took its toughest position yet against South Africa's racial policies. Late in the week the House of Representatives voted 380 to 48 for a package of economic sanctions to be imposed against South Africa, but the Senate delayed action until September after opponents of the bill threatened a filibuster to defeat...
...emergency has been denounced throughout the world. Last week, as he prepared to leave for a trip to seven black African countries, Pope John Paul II declared that South Africa's policy of apartheid was weighing on "the conscience of mankind," adding, "Our repugnance toward any form of racial discrimination is absolute and total...