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Civil rights advocates had given up hope that anyone would ever be punished for the murder of N.A.A.C.P. field secretary Medgar Evers, who was gunned down in Jackson, Miss., in 1963. Indicted in the killing was Byron de la Beckwith, a segregationist whose fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. But all- white juries twice failed to reach a verdict, and Beckwith went free...
When Anna La Barbera, a 33-year-old psychotherapist from White Plains, N.Y., bought a silver fox coat in 1984, she did so with joy and absolutely no hesitation. She would like to replace the aging fur, however, and she is in a quandary. "There's nothing like the warmth of fur," she says. But her physician husband is concerned about animal rights, and the arguments of anti- fur activists have moved her. "I've been struggling with the dilemma of buying fur," says La Barbera. "I like the look, but I feel real guilty." She is now shopping...
...La Barbera's dilemma is increasingly common among American women. Until recently, owning a fur coat, usually a mink, was an unquestioned emblem of luxury and social status. But lately a growing cadre of animal-rights activists has been aggressively denouncing such garments as "sadist symbols" that, they say, require the deaths of some 70 million helpless creatures each year (about 50 minks for each coat). That emotional claim has touched off a bitter battle that pits the animal lobby against fur owners and an increasingly embattled fur industry. So nasty have the hostilities become that in some cities around...
...La Boletin also often found itself working against U.S. and government interests...
...La Boletin was doing economic analyses showing the guerrillas were succeeding with their strategy of destroying the economic infrastructure of the country," says Mullaney. "This put UCA, by telling the truth, at odds with people from the international banking community. The military was upset because it [contradicted] the efforts they were putting into propaganda...