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Black women, so often engaged in the general struggle for sociological change, are largely absent from the ranks of Women's Liberation. Anne Osborne, who works for the Southern Christian Leadership Council in Atlanta, explains their reluctance to participate this way: "They're just beginning to get the kind of good treatment as women that white women have always had?they don't want to give it up too fast. Black men have just gotten enough money to take them to nice places, and women like it." Elizabeth Morgan, a supervisor for the Oakland-Berkeley Welfare Department, adds that some...
Experts disagree on the ultimate effects of the mass migration. Samuel P. Huntington, professor of government at Harvard, has argued that by accident the mass urban migration may turn out to be a great benefit for the U.S. and its South Vietnamese allies. "In an absent-minded way, the U.S. in Viet Nam may well have stumbled upon the answer to 'wars of national liberation,' " he has written. Huntington's thesis: since the government controls the cities, the population shift has made the countryside much less important politically. As a result the Communists are finding...
...Right after the vote was announced, 533-2, Fitzgerald and a Neapolitan bishop who also voted non placet went forward to Pope Pius IX and declared "Now I believe." Absent dissenters sent in their submissions...
This time, to be sure, one formidable personal obstacle to British entry is absent: Charles de Gaulle, whose conviction that London would only be a Trojan horse for American interests kept the British on the outside looking in for nearly a decade...
...Some 60% of the strippers interviewed came from broken or unstable homes in which the father was either absent or unreliable, or which had other disintegrating influences. Since they lacked the strong response that any daughter seeks from her father, the girls had to settle for substitutes. In baring their bodies to strangers, the strippers may simply be asking for the male attention and affection that their fathers never provided...