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...predicament is something that Lee ponders as he sits by the coal stove in the kitchen of his neat, sturdy farmhouse. His feet are covered with thick blue socks; the Amish remove their shoes before entering the home. His blue eyes are gentle behind sensible, old-fashioned glasses, his beard is appropriately patriarchal, his voice surprisingly soft. "I'm a man who wakes every morning and thanks God for what is," Lee says. "I don't worry. I work. I believe that the Government of the U.S. is fair and just. It is not the Amish habit...
...embrace of John Thompson, 6-ft. 5-in. Fred Brown seemed unimaginably little, childlike and blameless. For a moment, so did college basketball, which is saying something. These days, a coach or recruiter is considered honest if he has never stolen a stove that's still hot. Then, in one hug last week, there was redemption. The losing coach, Georgetown's mountainous Thompson, wrapped his arms nearly twice around Brown, the Georgetown player who had just thrown a pass and the championship away. As if Brown were on a ledge, Thompson held him tenderly beside the court, while...
...Negotiator Jack Pucell talked to one couple who had been ashamed of being unable to pay anything last year. Says he: "He's finally landed a job, and although he has had it only three months, they insist on paying the full cost." Another family installed a wood stove to cut utility bills so that they could pay more tuition. Says Savella: "Negotiated tuition generates a level of commitment we could never get with fixed tuition." At week's end parents had pledged more than $600,000, for an increase of 10% over this year's total...
...open cooking fires, the people recall how the army swept through last month, apparently on a hunt for left-wingers. When the troops left, at least 19 people were dead. "You heard the trucks pull up," said a stout woman frying vegetables in a pan over a wood stove. "The dogs started to bark. The soldiers came marching fast down the streets. They banged on doors, and they dragged people out." It is a litany that could also describe the raids of many right-wing death squads. In El Salvador, the vultures have learned to go where the guns...
...issues as school integration, affirmative action and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which Reagan has criticized as overly broad. "What the Administration is trying to do," says Althea Simmons, Washington lobbyist for the N.A.A.C.P., "is not just put civil rights on the back burner, but take it off the stove completely...