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Unfortunately, the public's answers can be as misleading as the questions. Ashamed to admit racial or religious prejudice, people who answer polls sometimes resort to artful lying. Though 80% tell interviewers that they will vote, only 65% do so. To prevent bias, interviewers ask trip-up questions ("When did you vote last?" "Where are you registered?"), and toss out roughly one-fifth of the respondents on the ground that they are unlikely to vote...
...first glance, Bermuda and the Bahamas might seem picture-postcard duplicates. Both Caribbean resort islands have a heavy Negro majority and a predominantly Negro party with the same initials (P.L.P.). Each also has a largely white-and business-dominated party with the same initials (U.B.P.). But there, all coincidence ends. In the Bahamas, the predominantly white United Bahamian Party was decisively voted from power in elections held last year. In Bermuda, voters went to the polls last week and just as decisively re-elected their predominantly white United Bermuda Party, giving it a commanding majority of 30 seats...
POVERTY: Welfare has proved ineffective and demeaning. The only answer is to create jobs. I'd do it through tax incentives to the private sector, using the Government as employer of last resort. I think business can handle most of it if we make it economically attractive...
Abernathy, who maintains that "my job is to tell the politicians what saith the Lord," had an opportunity to do so when 72 friendly Congressmen, including seven Senators, invited him up to Capitol Hill. In a 90-minute meeting, he promised to discourage civil disobedience-except "as a last resort." In turn, the Congressmen promised to set up what Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip Hart called a "bipartisan, biracial" committee of 15 to 17 members to confer weekly with Abernathy and his lieutenants...
...students deliberately revived battle cries of historic French revolutionists. "A has les ordonnances [Down with decrees]," proclaimed posters on the Sorbonne's two main doors. The message gibed at the De Gaulle government's minor resort to government by decree last year, but the phrase echoed the slogan of the insurrection that toppled King Charles X from the French throne in 1830, after he issued four suppressive decrees. Taking the name from the general assembly that led to the French Revolution of 1789, students summoned an "estates general" of students and professors to meet in Paris this week...