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...that the U.S. was getting ready to return political control to Tokyo. Even though most Okinawans welcome the change, they have had time enough for uneasy second thoughts about their island's future. "After all," Okinawan Banker Hiroshi Senaga told TIME Correspondent Frank Iwama, "the younger generation was brought up under U.S. administration, and the older generation knows only the discriminatory policies of Tokyo that made prewar Okinawa a second-class prefecture of Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKINAWA: Liberation with a Qualm | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

Harvard, with the pressure abruptly relieved, turned its attention to holding off inspired Navy for the final third of the race, and as Midshipman second-class Charles Munns strained mightily at his oar, Navy began to move on the Crimson shell. Then, Harvard cox Dave Weinberg called for power, and his boat responded with a smooth, explosive spring, that reopened the margin and won the Adams Cup Saturday--for the first time since 1968 by a little more than a length...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Heavies Sink Penn in 'Titanic' Race | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

...sanitationmen: "Even to this day, you are a second-class citizen, though I don't believe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DeLury Sampler: Notes From Underground | 3/25/1972 | See Source »

...important consideration for DeLury in calling the 1968 strike was the self-respect of the sanitationmen. "Even now we're regarded as second-class citizens, though I don't believe it. But then we were really fighting for respect. Nobody can give respect--you gotta prove respect, get back in the public esteem. I still remember when the strike was called--half past four in the morning on February 4, 1968. Sure, I thought '68 could be negotiated, but they wouldn't give on just $25 more. Lindsay didn't know, nobody knew, what would happen when the sanitation workers...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Steering a Tight Ship in a Sinking City | 3/25/1972 | See Source »

There is a consensus that Afro-American Studies should not be only a joint concentration. To insist that Afro-American Studies should be only a joint concentration relegates it to a second-class academic pursuit. Furthermore, in order to have Afro-American Studies as part of a joint concentration it should not have to be the minor field as now required in Rules Relating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Student Self-Interview | 3/21/1972 | See Source »

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