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Twenty states* have moved to stop nose thumbing at court orders by passing the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, which generally promises respect for custody terms worked out in other states. That still leaves 30 states as potential havens for child snatchers, however, and the act does not provide a...
Worn down, many veterans of Congress have given up the struggle to stay in office. Remarks Michigan Democrat John Conyers, who has served in the House since 1965: "Congress used to be a lifetime career. You died in Congress, or you tried to become Governor or Senator. On a clear...
In Washington, members of the congressional Black Caucus seem to have no idea, yet, how to make use of this anger, of the energy unleashed by Roots. "We've been given a piece of literature that takes the civil rights struggle to a higher level," said black Congressman John Conyers...
For Conyers and other blacks, however, the chief contribution of Roots?one that also provides its great potential for lasting effects?was crystallized in the sixth episode, when Kizzy explained to her son Chicken George why she could not marry her lover, Sam. "Sam wasn't like us," she says...
When I spoke to Conyers, he was even more pessimistic. "There is no spokesman for the left this year, other than Dellums," Conyers said, adding that he doesn't know where Carter stands--although he is sure that Carter is not a liberal.