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...sure the cohesion is there. The situation is tenuous now," says State Rep. Saundra Graham, chairperson of the Massachusetts Twentieth Anniversary Mobilization, which organized the march and hopes to organize a united front of progressive groups from it. Nationally, the march's organizers have called for a "New Coalition of Conscience" to "provide a catalyst for powerful and much needed social changes in this nation." Last week Graham and a steering committee of interest groups met to evaluate the march and decide whether to fund a local coalition...
They are still young, although the impertinent encroachments of middle age are beginning to make themselves felt in lungs and limbs. Deskbound by day, they work at fast-track jobs whose rewards and stresses balance in a tenuous equilibrium. Orphans of the "me" decade and survivors of the sexual revolution, many are newly divorced or never married, forlornly sizing up their nubile contemporaries and yearning for a more permanent relationship...
...until 1978 that a wide-ranging student movement began to promote the cause of divestiture. At the center was the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), founded in November of that year SASC managed to organize a tenuous coalition of disparate minority and political groups into the United Front, and led them through a series of mass rallies and demonstrations that culminated just before reading period. SASC called on the ACSR to recommend to the Corporation that it sell stocks in banks making loans to the South African government, support shareholder resolutions calling for complete corporate withdrawal, and issue a clear...
...until 1978 that a wide-ranging student movement began to promote the cause of divestiture. At the center was the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), founded in November of that year SASC managed to organize a tenuous coalition of disparate minority and political groups into the United Front, and led them through a series of mass rallies and demonstrations that culminated just before reading period. SASC called on the ACSR to recommend to the Corporation that it sell stocks in banks making loans to the South African government, support shareholder resolutions calling for complete corporate withdrawal, and issue a clear...
Germanos' absolution of the Phalangist high command came as no surprise. It was, after all, submitted to Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, who is himself a Phalangist and whose authority over the country remains tenuous at best. Noting that irony, an editorial in the Jerusalem Post dismissed the report as a "whitewash" and concluded tartly, "The report should be reason enough for Israelis to ponder the moral caliber of their newly found Lebanese friends...