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About 40 per cent of CLAO's cases are in family law. Most of these are routine divorces and are handled by law students. Good interviewing sometimes turns up other problems. but the students still admit that most of the divorce cases are boring and are one of the reasons why students leave CLAO. "Particularly the Harvard Law students sort of think in grander terms and get upset about doing the very mundane work." Cohen said...
...good will, but right now they do not seem to be characteristic of the situation. Concludes Cook: "The final impression is one of sameness: universal opposition to busing children to once-black schools, annoyance at what strikes whites as special treatment for blacks seeking education or jobs, reluctance to admit that local problems have local origins. Whites prefer to put the blame elsewhere. They say it's black militants from outside who are making all the trouble...
They put up a brave front, but the city's white leaders now admit that they have lost communication with Wichita blacks. Says Mayor Enoch: "I used to have good contacts with-how shall I say it without giving offense?-the more stable element there. Now it's far more difficult. It's a disastrous thing." These days Wichita blacks have trouble communicating with each other. A. Price Woodard. the incoming black mayor, insists: "I have faith in the white community. We are too prone to complain." But other blacks see Woodard as more of a white...
...discrimination is one cause. A classic case was that of Singer Bessie Smith, who was in an auto accident while driving north from singing engagements in Mississippi. After her black Samaritan driver had been turned away from white hospitals, she at last reached a hospital that was willing to admit her. Too late. In the grisly abbreviation of the hospital industry, she was DOA-dead on arrival...
Instinctive Firing. Shortly after members of his company began talking publicly about the tragedy last November, Medina appeared on television and at a Washington press conference to claim that he saw "no shooting of any innocent civilians whatsoever" in the My Lai attack. He did admit personally killing a woman, explaining that he had fired instinctively, thinking she was armed, when she moved suddenly. He sharply denied the account of one of his soldiers, who said that he saw Medina shoot a boy. The charges against Medina now include those two deaths. They also include the alleged murder...