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...asked for the White House meeting. Efforts by more traditional black organizations to talk seriously with the President have been rebuffed for the past three years. The council's spokesman, Robert Woodson, is president of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, which coordinates the work of community-based self-help groups. Instead of quarreling with Administration plans to cut the budgets of programs aimed at helping the poor, the council suggested reforms, including tax incentives for development of poor neighborhoods and a shift from government- supervised foster-care programs for abandoned children to those of black churches and civic groups...
...message fits snugly into the self-help '80s: if we can look this good at 40 or 50, there is hope for you too. It is no accident that several of TV's most popular glamour girls have written bestselling books on beauty or fitness. Among them: Victoria Principal's The Body Principal (and her just published sequel, The Beauty Principal), Linda Evans' Beauty & Exercise Book, The Joan Collins Beauty Book and Morgan Fairchild's Super Looks...
...embarrassments to their families. They are uneasy, but not really frightened, and certainly not indignant. No one, including the leader Balaban, thinks of protesting against abuse and prejudice. Other groups have defects too, admits one guest who is stalwartly trying to rid himself of tainted habits by the prescribed self-help routines. "But their defects are healthy. People say that the Austrians are heavy drinkers. Of course they are, but that, if it can be called a defect at all, is a healthy defect ... If only the Jews knew how to drink ... they would surely be different...
Jackson, who many on the inside feel will declare soon, brings many problems into the equation, which the media have not neglected to discuss. Among these problems are the questionable finances of Operation PUSH, Jackson's Chicago-based Black self-help group; the potential split which might occur among the middle-class Black leaders and politicians, though mass enthusiasm could still force anti-Jackson leaders into a more conciliatory stand; questions about Jackson's administrative capacity to run the $2-4 million-dollar campaign he needs to survive in the primaries; concerns that Jackson is an egotistical climber looking...
...first self-help group for abusive men was formed in Boston in 1977. There are now about 50. Very few men go to such centers on their own. Either their partner has left or is threatening to, or they are attending under court order. By and large, they do not believe they have done anything wrong, sometimes insisting that they are not batterers at all. Those who own up to being violent frequently believe their wives are at fault. Nick, 33, an unemployed New Yorker who chose a six-week counseling program over 90 days in jail, is franker than...