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...Wednesday, Weinberger was ready to play a few specific cards, but he dealt them with a sleight of hand. At a White House lunch, he rattled off some numbers in a near mumble, giving only the President printed notes to follow. The others were "treated like second-class citizens," claimed one observer. When those around the table finally unscrambled Weinberger's offer, they did not think much of it. He had proposed shifting a scheduled 5.6% military pay increase from January 1986 to July 1, 1985, producing a paper saving of $4 billion in the fiscal 1986 budget with...
American Indian students at Harvard have scores of similar tales of their trials and travails outside the reservation. At Harvard and elsewhere, Indian students say the are still fighting stereotypes that have relegated them to second-class citizen status...
...built his life around sports because he got tired of being beat up for being a half-breed. The bigger he grew, the more he was left alone, he adds. His father is a Chippewa and his mother is of Finnish and German origin. The whites considered him a second-class citizen and the Indian children fought with him because it was better than fighting among themselves, he says. "There is so much resentment on a reservation I understand why they did it," he adds. "I resent whites myself...
...oddity-are rarely struck. But the story is told in sure-handed fashion, and it is flawlessly paced. Gueret at least is a convincing character, and the author takes an unexpectedly hearty interest in his clumsy pursuit of Mme. Biron. The French critics are doubtless right that this is second-class Sagan, but there is enough here to justify her exploring the low road for once. -By Martha Duffy
...Initially a minority (17% in 1948), the Sephardim now make up 55% of the population and about half the electorate. It is the Sephardic votes that in 1977 swept Begin to power. In the past seven years, the Sephardim, says Author Oz, "have risen from the emotional position of second-class citizens into the emotional state of owners of the country" (see following story...