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Proponents also argue that if Congress was sincere when it approved the Voting Rights Amendment two years ago, it will support statehood. Yet opponents of the initiative such as Fauntroy and the District chapter of the League of Women Voters, point out that it took Alaska and Hawaii 50 years to obtain statehood. They note that those two states, one Democratic and one Republican, balanced each other politically; the heavily Black District, on the other hand, would be an overwhelmingly Democratic state. For that reason alone, Congressional conservatives might oppose the measure...
...efforts failed. Perhaps the greatest humiliation was that the amendment never even made it before the legislature, falling one vote shy of being considered. NOW leaders, including Beth Broderson, president of the Boston chapter, maintain, however, that because the amendment never went up for a vote, "Illinois cannot be considered a repudiation." Following the Illinois defeat, NOW strategists sat down at last month's national meeting in Texas and devised a battle plan: monitor the results of legislative races in the 15 unratified states to determine which will be the most likely to pass the ERA. The three targeted states...
Clevelanders were out to prove last night that their city can handle the pressure of the big time. And so they asked the Cleveland chapter of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Clubs--which had originally reserved the Public Hall or tonight--to move its annual Ebony fashion fair down the street to the Palace Theater...
Harvard has been permitted to appeal Cortese's office's decision five times. It reached that office because it had received approval from other agencies. All of these approvals were based upon particular submissions, engineering specifications, cost estimates, the lot. The Chapter 121A agreement, for example, was based on a cost estimate of $56 million and was premised on the understanding that the plant was justified because it would save the participating hospitals money. Five appeals later, the cost has risen to close to $250 million, and even Harvard now admits that the plant is going to lose money...
MILLER'S APOLOGIA extends throughout the book. With Vietnam Miller never explores the careful coverup of the war's financing; instead he marshals statements from Johnson advisers explaining how they "anguished" over the decisions to escalate the war. The chapter on Vietnam is particularly frustrating, for Miller presents a few fascinating insights and then fails to elaborate on them. Former aide Harry MacPherson tells how Johnson was completely oblivious to the demands and concerns of the militant left, how he didn't even understand them. According to MacPherson Johnson was always asking. "What in the world do they want...