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Yokoi became an instant hero in Japan, and he will be given a triumphal welcome this week in Tokyo, and later in his hometown of Nagoya, where there is a tombstone bearing his name in a graveyard. The Japanese government offered Yokoi a $320 cash token of sympathy-his accrued back pay amounts to only about $129-and chartered a jet to fly him home. Thousands of Japanese citizens have come forward with gifts, ranging from job proposals to electric blankets and a lifetime pass to a hotel's bath. All in all, Yokoi may find modern life...
...compromise of 1877, and removed the Federal troops whose presence had protected black de facto enfranchisement, blacks continued to be loyal to the Republican party. Although this loyalty was decidedly more advantageous to the Republicans than it was to blacks, the arrangement was not without token compensations. Beginning with Grant, who appointed Frederick Douglass commissioner to Santo Domingo and later minister to Haiti, black Republicans were appointed to significant Federal posts. Even after Reconstruction, they secured patronage jobs like collector of internal revenue or customs duties for a given city, local consular agent or postmaster, or register of the Federal...
...Wednesday, December 8th, to write an article unequivocally condemning the SDS for their attacks on Professor Herrnstein. I have been conditioned in the past to get from the Crimson an unstintingly Left wing bias in all your editorials so it was a refreshing, though I believe only a token act, to read a different point of view in the Crimson. I hope to see more of this in the future. Alex Kummel...
Fourth Party, Whatever happens at the black convention next spring, black leaders plan to impose a set of demands on the Democratic Convention. They will map out a political program for inclusion in the platform. They are considering a list of potential black Cabinet members to force more than token representation in a Democratic Administration. And some are prepared to lead a boycott-perhaps even a fourth-party movement-if the nominee is unacceptable to them. Despite the disagreements among black leaders, Democratic Party officials cannot discount their probable impact on the convention. Says Missouri Representative William Clay: "If blacks...
With his withdrawal, it appears that another token liberal will again lead the Democratic field, espousing little more than a slight change from the present policies, which are so indifferent to the needs of our country...