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...stereotype of small town reactionary fanaticism is often as much of a myth as that of the Red Menace on the Charles, insists Elliott. He points out that his family, for example, as well as other members of the Anabaptist Protestant sect to which they belong, have always stressed cooperation and generosity in race relations. "In some ways I also came here a lot less exist than many people," he adds, explaining that in Bremen, women such as his own mother work full-time "out of necessity, and there's no great cause attached to it." In general he lauds...
DIED. Muhammad Idris el Mahdi es Senussi, 93, first and only King of Libya for 18 years until he was overthrown in a coupled by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 1969; in Cairo. Hereditary leader of the Senussi sect of Islam, traditional rulers of what is now eastern Libya, he fled to Cairo a few years after the territory was occupied by Italy in World War I to lead the resistance against the Mussolini fascists. Idris' troops fought alongside the British Eighth Army in World War II, and in 1951, with British support, he was proclaimed monarch of the newly...
...Sparts descend on Anderson with all the vitriol of a permanently irrelevant sect. "Some of us, including the Spartacists," writes Tom Cowperthwaite, as if the two were somehow different, "have chosen not to wear every radical-sounding button on our chest (sic)..." But just sentences before, he accuses Anderson of hiding his politics to keep "his radical-chic image intact." Which is it. Tom-of-the-non-radical-chic-image? Alden Cavanagh, displaying the SYL's talent for historical discrimination, subtly equates Anderson's original letter with Hitler's Big Lie, and then oddly smears Anderson for having defended...
Unfortunately, a minority sect in Northern Ireland thinks Ulster should be part of the Irish Republic. This group bases its arguments on events that took place hundreds of years ago. A sense of history is no excuse for the murder and mutilation of innocent people...
...Black Life in Corporate America, a book that says integration in the upper levels of the white-collar work force is a sham. The coauthors, George Davis, a novelist, and Glegg Watson, who helps direct educational grants at Xerox Corp., explain that they might have paraphrased an old Jamaican-sect expression as a theme: "How can African man live at IBM without losing himself?" The answer: he cannot. They conclude that even where overt discrimination does not exist, black managers feel they must not only outperform their white competitors to get ahead, but also hide their racial identity behind...