Word: wilson
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...Boston chapter of the Committee Against Racism (CAR) held a meeting yesterday to denounce what they called determinist theories like those in the book, "Sociobiology" by E.O. Wilson, professor of Zoology...
Steve Rosenthal, lecturer in sociology at Boston University, who presided over the meeting, said that Wilson's hypothesis regarding the existence of genes for behavior would fuel existing racist propaganda...
Rosenthal said Wilson's ideas about genetics could be used by segregationist groups as a rationale for claiming the inevitability of racial inequities...
Last week the State Department diffidently issued its first, 143-page roundup, based on reports from U.S. embassies and prepared by staffers working with James Wilson, State's coordinator for human rights and humanitarian affairs...
Since Callaghan has lost effective control of Parliament, London bookies promptly laid 4-to-5 odds on his defeat. Smart politicians, though, were betting that the avuncular Prime Minister could survive with a vote or so to spare. Since succeeding Harold Wilson a year ago, Callaghan has seen Labor's slim three-vote majority in Commons whittled by death, resignation and lost by-elections to an overall minority of nine. Still, with his party holding a 32-vote edge over the Tories, Callaghan's only fear was the kind of catalytic issue that would unite the Conservatives with...