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Part of growing up white in Rhodesia includes learning that the black is inferior. The child sees his father talking down to his workers, his mother to the household servants--and even whites on welfare may have a servant. The white child soon notices that the African performs only menial, manual tasks while the white man works with his mind...
Prime Target. Some police officials speculated that the prime target of the terrorists, whoever they were, might have been Ewart-Biggs' visitor, Cubbon. As Britain's top civil servant in Northern Ireland, he had been participating in exploratory and unproductive peace talks between Catholic and Protestant leaders in Belfast. Since efforts to set up a Catholic-Protestant coalition government in Ulster collapsed last January, the Labor government's "policy" in Northern Ireland has been to have Britain's 14,500 troops there simply lean on their rifles and let the two sides continue to slug...
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a well-known writer well before Uncle Tom's Cabin made her rich and famous. For a time, she and her preacher husband Calvin Stowe were too poor to afford a servant. Mrs. Stowe ran her house, cared for her twin daughters (the first two of seven children), churned out genteel, folksy stories and religious essays to help make ends meet. Uncle Tom's Cabin changed all that. It was the first great American bestseller. In its initial year in print it sold 300,000 copies, and eventually more than 3 million American readers...
Businessmen charge he is too zealous. Ralph Nader calls him "a public servant who takes his public trust seriously." His own associates merely marvel that one man can do so much; a colleague says he routinely puts in 17-hour days, "going 90 m.p.h. all the way." Stanley Sporkin, 44, sees his task more simply: to throw a spotlight on wrongdoers. He heads the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which brings charges against companies for violations of securities laws and thus polices 9,000 public companies, 3,500 brokerage houses, 3,700 investment advisers...
...notable victim of the decree was Silvia Gingold, 29, a public school teacher in Hesse, who was denied civil servant status a year ago because she was a Communist Party member. Germans were outraged when Hesse authorities refused to take into account Silvia's special circumstances: her Jewish parents had fled from Nazi Germany into France, where they joined the Communist-led Resistance...