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Bond, who first received national recognition in the '60s for both his opposition to the Vietnam War and his participation in the civil rights movement, pointed out that 91 per cent of the blacks who voted in last fall's election supported President Jimmy Carter. He urged Carter, whose nomination Bond opposed in the primaries, to live up to the expectations of his black constituents and to return their loyalty...
...belonging to Palestinians, the alleged mistreatment of prisoners by the state, and press censorship against Palestinian poets and journalists--"during the Vietnam war, Vietnam could not be mentioned by Palestinian poets in occupied territories," he says. Shahak also protests what he describes as discrimination against a group of people whose official name he translates as "Jews who are not Jews"--that is, individuals who suddenly discover from official dictates that their mother or grandmother was not Jewish, causing them to lose certain rights in Israel...
Although Shahak's activities certainly arouse controversy and anger in the Israeli political arena, he avoids political alignment with any group. Labeling himself as a fiscally conservative "anti-Marxist," he nevertheless works closely with many socialists and communists, including outspoken lawyer Felicia Langer, whose defense of the many Palestinians brought before Israeli tribunals has made her one of the most prominent members of the Israeli peace movement...
...their way through college by working at term-time jobs returned to school this month to find that the funds received by Radcliffe under the federal College Work-Study Program have been seriously depleted, forcing the Student Employment Office (SEO) to limit Work-Study eligibility to those Radcliffe students whose parents cannot contribute any money to the cost of a college education. An overconcentration of Work-Study funds in summertime jobs held by Radcliffe students exhausted 50 per cent of Radcliffe's federal monies for the 1977-78 academic year. Moreover, Radcliffe's insistence on applying for Work-Study funding...
WHEN COMMUNITY RESIDENTS oppose a large institution whose expansion threatens their homes or businesses, the people must "fight rough, fight tough and fight for keeps, "William Worthy, author of "The Rape of Our Neighborhoods, "said last night...