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...city's defenders argued that the ugly attacks were isolated incidents, hardly representative of other Philadelphia communities. But Philadelphia Daily News Columnist Chuck Stone assigned at least some of the blame to city hall, which is still shaken by last May's bombing of the headquarters of the radical group Move that ultimately engulfed several city blocks in flames. Declared Stone: "When you have the city committing the most violent act you can commit, it legitimizes the violence in other people's thinking...
...Some blame the welfare system for contributing to the disintegration of the black family by providing an incentive for young women to have babies. While rules vary from state to state, indigent girls generally become eligible for public assistance in their third trimester of pregnancy. Most social-service workers argue, however, that the welfare system is at most a minor factor in teenage pregnancy. "It's possible that with no assistance, we would see fewer kids going to term," says Radosh of New York City's mayor's office. "But I don't think you'd see fewer getting pregnant...
There has been a reaction. Chinese Communist purists blame foreign influences for such trends as a revival of pornography and prostitution. University students have staged several demonstrations in downtown Peking and other major cities. While ostensibly aimed at Japan's commercial presence, or, as was the case last week, at China's nuclear testing program, the demonstrations seemed to be directed more broadly at Deng's reforms because of the corruption and nepotism that have accompanied them...
What kills the babies, most people agree, is Grand Boulevard itself, a problem that is not likely to be solved by technological heroism in the intensive-care nursery. It is easiest to blame the mothers. They are often teenagers who have got pregnant through carelessness and gone through the pregnancy in secret, with no prenatal care and little social pressure to eat right, say, or give up smoking. Some of the mothers are alcoholics, drug addicts, prostitutes...
Spence allowed that "the university owes an apology to scholars in the field" but conceded that not all of the blame should be heaped on Safran. It seems that when Safran signed the CIA contract for his book nearly four years ago, he told then Dean Henry Rosovsky about it. Somehow, Rosovsky's office never got around to responding. Last week Safran, angry at the prolonged controversy and the pressure to resign, stoutly defended his integrity and scholarship: "I have received requests for my book . . . from the Saudi embassy in Washington...