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Michael and Kitty Dukakis have in a year experienced an extraordinary fall from grace. Sixteen months ago, they stood, a charmed political pair, before a roaring Democratic Convention. Today they struggle to hold together their public and private lives...
...Sixteen Catholic colleges and universities, including Boston College, Georgetown University and Catholic University, sent representatives to the Washington mobilization, NOW organizers...
...just that Pittston is an unabashed union buster. It's not just that it has a record of safety and environmental violations that is exceptional even by the standards of the coal industry. It's not just that Pittston was criminally negligent in the 1972 flash flood that destroyed sixteen West Virginia towns along Buffalo Creek, along with 125 of their residents. It's not just that Pittston got off the hook for the Buffalo Creek catastrophe with a miniscule $13.5 million settlement by allegedly using its influence with the corrupt administration of former West Virginia Gov. Arch A. Moore...
When Democratic Congresswoman Pat Schroeder arrived in Washington in 1973 with two young children, she thought it would be only a year or so until Congress passed a federal child-care plan. Sixteen years later, Schroeder's children are grown, and the U.S. still lags far behind most other industrialized nations in national family policy. House Democrats have taken a big -- and expensive -- step toward catching up by defeating White House efforts to weaken legislation to create a national child-care program...
Nine plays, 67 yards, touchdown. Sixteen plays, 58 yards, touchdown...