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...George Wallace's American Independent Party wins enough Deep South states to force selection of the next President into the House of Representatives. With one vote for each state delegation, a handful of Wallaceites prove crucial. What price their support? If not repeal of the 13th and 14th Amendments, an ambassadorship to South Africa for George, at the very least...
...shall have the same right, in every state and territory, as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property." Congress, said Justice Potter Stewart, "meant exactly what it said." And it had the power to say so under the 13th Amendment, which, according to an earlier court decision, had enabled the legislature to abolish "all badges and incidents of slavery." In addition, said Stewart, Congress had not indicated any distinction between private and public acts of discrimination. "So long as a Negro citizen who wants to buy or rent...
...students and older adults, housewives and city workers, Irish and more Irish. "Tell me now, just what could we do against that collection?" a member of the losing slate said after the votes had been tallied and all 12 members of the insurgent slate had finished ahead of Hickey (13th) and two other incumbents who filled out the 15-man committee...
...undeniable that all through history, violence has been the chief means of social reform. Even primitive Christians, proclaiming love, destroyed pagan temples to dramatize their cause. The Boston Tea Party had the same purpose. The 13th century King John's Magna Carta illustrated the oldest inducement for social reform: fear of "revolution or worse." To his credit, Marx argued against violence until societies were really ripe for change; most Western European labor terrorism disappeared as a result. But in romantic countries, including the U.S., revolutionary violence often became a mystique for purging feelings of inferiority. Explains Brandeis University Sociologist...
Iran last week celebrated Siezdahbedar, the 13th day of the Persian New Year, when evil spirits descend upon the cities and city dwellers flee to the countryside to have a picnic lunch beside a running stream. Thus there were no cheering crowds when Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin came to Teheran for a week-long state visit. But no difference: Kosygin was more than welcome. After years of nearly total dependence on the West, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi is turning his country increasingly toward Russia, his once hostile northern neighbor, seeking friendship, trade and backing for his ambitious industrial development plans...