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Although the N.A.A.C.P. is committed to a registration drive aimed at adding 1.5 to a registration drive aimed at adding 1.5 million blacks to the 11 million now on electoral rolls, only one full-time staff member and a secretary have been assigned to the task. Similarly, only one staffer is involved full time with Operation Fair Share, a campaign of selective boycotts aimed at corporations that refuse to integrate their boards or commit themselves to hiring more blacks. The organization also has had trouble recruiting top-caliber staffers. Says Board Member Julian Bond: "Working for the N.A.A.C.P...
...meeting with Provenzano. Tony Pro is now back in prison. He was convicted in 1978 of ordering the murder of a former official of a New Jersey Teamsters local. Fitzsimmons died of cancer last year. His successor as Teamsters president, Roy L. Williams, has been indicted for conspiracy to commit bribery, and is expected to stand trial in Chicago this fall...
...these people are conflict, and the tactics employed in Korea and in Vietnam tend to show that "fire power-attrition" is questionable, something should be done to bring this matter to the attention of as many voters as possible before Administration budgets commit this country to more of the same...
...once one abandons the initial shock at the unexpected decision the insanity defense of Hinckley's lawyers and psychiatrists seems well grounded in the Anglo-American justice tradition. That tradition punishes people for two reasons for crimes they knew they were committing, and for having had free will over the decision to commit the crime...
This battle rages through his books: in the old fishing village of St. Botolphs, in Manhattan apartments and in privileged communities named Shady Hill, Bullet Park or Proxmire Manor. The warriors drink too much, commit adultery, contemplate and sometimes execute murder. They ride trains, accepting a shuttle in lieu of a destination. They feel themselves inexplicably blessed and damned. Occasionally, they sense redemption in "the perfumes of life: sea water, the smoke of burning hemlock, and the breasts of women...