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...Corry makes the most of his material. At the drop of a shilleleagh, he can spin off a neat character sketch that will leave all who have ever seen a Barry Fitzgerald movie shaking their heads in recognition. Perhaps the most striking is his portrait of Tom Murray, the staunch champion of Catholicism who insisted that each daughter and her beau say an entire rosary before embarking on an evening's date...
...delayed a tax increase for 11 months in 1975, despite a $700 million deficit. The governor slashed human services to balance the budget, and has run a pro-business, austerity-minded administration. Frank notes, "Unlike White, Dukakis went to the right early and pulled the state with him." A staunch Dukakis supporter in the 1974 election, Frank explains, "He made promises that were inconsistent and I fooled myself...
...remind a professor who won his tenure in the aftermath of mass social uprising following the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, that Afro-American people have had to protest and struggle for what few democratic rights we have won. In the words of Frederick Douglass, a staunch freedom fighter. Without struggle, there is no progress! Whether Mr. Kilson is aware of it or not, there were no tenured Afro-Americans in the Government Department before his appointment, and none since. Ever since then, Professor Kilson has burrowed in deep and launched a series of attacks on other Afro...
...French party, too, still has among its top leadership men who were once staunch Stalinists. Marchais himself is a new (and in some quarters suspect) convert to the more liberal tenets of Euro-Communism. The French Communists were stung by an article in the Soviet Party organ Pravda blasting their participation in a Paris rally called to support political prisoners in the Soviet Union. In Madrid, Marchais was not about to raise Russian hackles again. Said he rather lamely: "We think that the three parties do not have the right to make a collective condemnation of some parties." That left...
...point. "Obviously," he said, "there are deprivations of human rights even more brutal than the ones on which we've commented up to now." He singled out, in varying degrees of guilt, Uganda, South Korea, Cuba-and the U.S. Scores of other nations as well, many of them staunch U.S. allies, have systematically violated human rights while Washington looked the other way. The U.S., said a recent congressional study, has too often been guilty of "embracing governments which practice torture and unabashedly violate almost every human rights guarantee pronounced by the world community...