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...pursuing his independent course in the Senate, Ervin has deplored wiretapping by federal authorities but has shown little concern about it at state and local levels. He drew the wrath of Women's Liberationists by fighting the women's rights amendment to the Constitution, terming it the "unisex amendment" and contending that it would deprive women of such present legal benefits as exemption from the draft and freedom from prosecution for non-support of children. Despite his church-going constituency, he has fought attempts to permit prayer in public schools. The Constitution, he insists, has wisely erected...
...actions. Even if the former dean sincerely thought the Department was being mismanaged, he went to suspiciously great lengths to attempt to level it, including sabotaging the formation of the DuBois Institute. Incompetence had persisted in other departments of the Faculty without incurring the full force of Dunlop's wrath...
...that the Asians are gone, Amin appears to be in need of a new scapegoat for his country's troubles. The latest victims of his uncertain wrath are blacks from neighboring Kenya. In the past month, several Kenyans who held executive positions in Uganda have disappeared or been found murdered. When other Kenyans in Uganda began to flee in terror, Amin accused them, naturally, of being guerrillas and hinted that he might shut off the electricity that Uganda supplies to Kenya-25% of its total power. His freewheeling troops, meanwhile, crossed the Kenya border and rustled 4,000 cattle...
Stand Fast. Abortion foes promised action to match their wrath. Right to Life committees in Illinois and Texas quickly began planning a campaign for a constitutional amendment. The Roman Catholic Bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Affairs noted that "hospitals and health facilities under Catholic auspices will not find this compatible with their faith and moral convictions. We urge our doctors, nurses and healthcare personnel to stand fast in refusing to provide abortion on request." A Virginia group of Catholic laymen urged a "symbolic gesture": excommunication of William Brennan, the court's only Catholic and part of the majority...
...taken a fashion to the fast-handed fighter who stunned Sonny Liston with contemptuous authority. But, when after falling under the spell of Malcolm X, the religion of Islam, and the disciplined dignity of Elijah Muhammad's followers. Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali and Muhammad Ali attracted the wrath of white American bureaucratic brontosaurs like the WBA, the Selective Service, and the American Legion, the world beyond the buttons developed a clinging passion to the man who had become their champion. In Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Arab world, even in Europe, England and the American center cities, crowds...