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...decree was sent to President Ernesto Geisel that ends official protection and gives the Indians title to their land. The rationale was that it would put the Indians on the same footing as other Brazilians. When the Indians are no longer wards of the state, insists Interior Minister Rangel Reis, they can become "politicians, generals and even Presidents of the Republic...
...executives and black genealogists? Or did its huge audience mean that the series might be every bit as significant in its own way as the civil rights marches of the '60s? A few people insisted that Roots' impact would be transitory. Said black New York Representative Charles Rangel: "It helps people identify and gets conversations started, but I can't see any lasting effect." Black Literature Professor Leon Forrest at Northwestern University believes that if the show had been televised during the ferment of the '60s, it might have served as a catalyst. "But we are now in a period...
...York City (Harlem) Congressman Charles Rangel spelled out his concern for the appointee: "It takes a lot of courage for a man of Andy Young's reputation to go to the U.N. and deal with the credibility gap that we have with the Third World nations. I don't envy him. In fact, if I were a religious man, I'd be praying...
...held his own in the economic argument, Rockefeller offered a concession. He pledged that if he were confirmed, he would put all his assets in a blind trust, except for art and real estate, including four farms in Venezuela. In an exchange with New York's Charles Rangel, Rockefeller refused to retreat from his position that it would have been a mistake to have himself met with the Attica prison rebels...
...three Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee-Robert F. Drinan of Massachusetts, Don Edwards of California and Charles B. Rangel of New York-said that their doubts about Rockefeller had deepened. So, too, had the misgivings of some Republican conservatives. Senator William L. Scott, a conservative Republican from Virginia, called on Rockefeller to withdraw. Some conservatives hold a grudge for his refusal to back Senator Barry Goldwater for President in 1964; some liberals blame him in part for the deaths of 32 prisoners and eleven hostages during the 1971 revolt at New York's Attica Prison. It seemed possible...