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...conduct a thorough review of its guidelines and procedures for outside funding. This review process should involve all those who take part in the Center's work and should culminate in a clear statement of policy. Lisa Anderson associate professor of government A. Tosun Aricanli assistant professor of economics Selma Botman research associate, CMES Mary Jo Del Vecchio Good lecturer on sociology Zachary Lockman assistant professor of history Afsaneh Najmabadi visiting lecturer on government Paula Sanders assistant professor of history
...DIED. Selma Diamond, 64, raspy-voiced comic actress and comedy writer who played the world-weary, chain-smoking bailiff on TV's Night Court; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. Diamond was a top writer for Perry Como, Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and a playfully sardonic TV talk-show guest. Her films include It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), My Favorite Year (1982), Twilight Zone -- The Movie...
...when we were thirsty. We could not use the rest room when we had the urge." Yet, Jackson declared, "we stand here today because of unfinished business." Wilbert Thigman, a municipal worker who bears a scar on his arm as a result of the 1965 march, said conditions in Selma are much better now. A job then, he recalled, meant "50 cents a day and ten hours a day. You can get a lot more money now." Selma was once almost totally dependent on agriculture, mostly cotton. Now, observed Smitherman, still the mayor 20 years later, "there are 65 different...
...anniversary march crossed the Pettus bridge, black and white Selma police officers and state troopers held back the automobile traffic. Blacks constitute 35% of the Selma police department and 45% of the fire department. Two of Selma's six present councilmen are black. A black woman, Jackie Walker, was elected tax collector last fall, becoming the first of her race to win a countywide election since Reconstruction. Walker died in an auto accident on Feb. 1. Selma's minority community is waiting to see if the white county commissioners will appoint another black to take her place...
...What happened was unjust," said Selma Librarian Patricia Blalock. "Some people reacted badly. But I think you should give a town another chance. We've tried to change." To the Rev. Frederick Reese, a Selma black leader who had invited King to check out the city's denial of voting rights in the first place, the 20-year evolution has been "miserably slow." Now principal of the Eastside Junior High School, Reese pointed to two private white academies that have opened since the public schools began to integrate in 1965. "There is toleration," he said. "Toleration is a step forward...