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There are enough who fit each aspect of the composite to unfairly tar all the needy, but the reality of poverty in the U.S. is not what myth would have it. A majority of the welfare recipients in the country are white (58%), and thousands of them???many from high-paying jobs, especially in engineering?are now discovering the shock of poverty for the first time. Forty-two percent are nonwhite, more than three times their proportion of the population?testimony to the dislocation and discrimination in American society. Hundreds of thousands of blacks left the Deep South...
...before a grand jury. Hoover made no reply, but Attorney General Mitchell needed no advice from Anderson. The case was already on its way to court. Last week a federal grand jury in Harrisburg, Pa., issued indictments naming six defendants and seven co-conspirators?the Berrigan brothers among them???as plotters who had planned to do exactly what Hoover described...
PRESIDENT Nixon calls them "universities of crime." Chief Justice Burger has become a crusader for their reform. Legislators have taken to investigating them???and citizens have finally begun to listen. After decades of ignoring their prisons, Americans are slowly awakening to the failure that long neglect has wrought...
While they are being hotly courted on all sides, blue collar workers are also being severely criticized by traditional friends and opponents alike. Political liberals, who once considered workingmen their most reliable allies, now often see them???rather simplistically?as supporters of racism and repression. Black leaders condemn many unions for systematically excluding Negroes. Many other Americans think of labor as fat, lazy and arrogant, a condition exemplified in their minds by the $10-an-hour auto mechanic, the $15-an-hour plumber and the $18,000-a-year carpenter...
What happens next in the larger Arab-Israeli deadlock is the top priority question now preoccupying Washington. Despite all of the new tensions?or perhaps because of them???the Rogers peace initiative is still alive?barely. While it seemed to founder on the failure of the U.S. to prevent Soviet duplicity in Egypt, it is now a matter of even more urgency. The plan has at least led to a cease-fire along the Suez. Both sides have agreed at least in principle to renewed talks...