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...MOVEMENT that welled up to support Davis differed from those of other defense committees in more than just strength: It encompassed a far wider segment of the American populace than those groups who agreed politically with Davis. Despite President Nixon's assessment that she was one of the country's most dangerous criminals, liberal politicians, establishment professors and previously apolitical pop stars lent their names to Free Angela Davis Committees and fund-raising events. Those who turned out or wrote letters and signed petitions to support Davis cut across class barriers and encompassed a wide spectrum of political groups. These...
...charges the government made against Davis were clearly spurious ones. As the trial developed it became obvious that they were merely a facade for political persecution. This in part accounts for the wider base of the Free Angela Davis movement. Still, Angela Davis is a member of the Communist Party USA. She openly denounces the "corporate pigs" and capitalist system that allows them to exploit her brothers and sisters. In 1970, Gov. Ronald Reagan and the UCLA Board of Regents sought to fire her from her teaching post at UCLA and they eventually did not renew her contract because...
...summit, at this moment, must be reckoned a success in one major dimension: it exposed President Ford to a much wider range of views on the functioning of our economy than he was likely to get from his official advisers. Thus it represents a welcome opening of the White House after five years of a President who shunned outside views...
Reduced Trauma. Most doctors are likely to welcome the NCI's findings on L-PAM and make wider use of the drug. But, until ways other than surgery are developed to determine whether cancers have spread to the lymph nodes, few are likely to abandon radical mastectomy for the simpler operation...
This trend has tended to be obscured, or at least overshadowed, by the wider problem of a rapidly increasing birth rate in the world as a whole. In the underdeveloped areas of Asia and Africa, which include more than half of the world's people, the population is increasing by 2.3% a year, far faster than food supplies-a serious situation that has been severely aggravated by drought in parts of Africa and India. In Bucharest last month, a United Nations conference of demographers, scientists and government planners from 141 nations held ten days of acrimonious discussions about...