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...drawn by oxen, picked ears of maize, ate the local diet and slept in a native hut. Julius Nyerere, 48, Tanzania's President, was making an earnest attempt to measure at first hand the depths of his country's need, and to promote Ujaama (community villages), the self-help principle through which he hopes to assist Tanzania in alleviating its poverty...
...best tradition of American self-help, these loopholes are open mainly to those who come looking for them. As David Suttler points out time and again in IV-F , no one is so healthy that he cannot fail his draft physical. But woe to the co?? placent victim who assumes that the Army will do his work for him. Unless a draftee knows he's ?? and can prove it, the Army is not going to was?? any effort uncovering his malady...
More often, the new black localism is the work of lesser known figures who are learning how to create black self-help groups, to force coalitions of white civic leaders and black activists where necessary, and to work among the black poor to give them hope and the techniques to improve their living conditions. It is hard, painstaking, unromantic work in which success seldom comes swiftly, but once achieved, can have lasting effect...
...collision course." Demonstrations last summer in Chicago, Pittsburgh and Seattle showed what happens when they collide. In Pittsburgh, 40 people were injured in clashes between police and black and white demonstrators. At one site Nate Smith, a former professional boxer and at that time head of a self-help organization called Operation Dig, dragged a superintendent to the edge of a fifth-floor framework and told him, as Ebony magazine reported, "Look, m.f., if you don't hire my men, I'm gonna drop you." The superintendent hired eleven...
...infectious disease." Epidemic, of course, is a relative term, but as a Chicago psychiatrist, Dr. Marvin Schwarz, says: "Now we're seeing it clinically, whereas before we weren't. The kids on heroin all have long histories of drug use." At the California-based Synanon self-help centers for addicts, the teen-age population has risen from zero five years ago to 400 today. In San Francisco, Dr. Barry Ramer, director of the Study for Special Problems, calls heroin now "the most readily available drug on the streets." He adds: "In my wildest nightmares, I never dreamed of what...