Where Is Jesse Jackson Leading
A column questions Rev. Jesse Jackson s direction after his meetings with Marxist figures in Cuba and Central America. It contrasts his confrontational policies with Mondale and notes Muhammad Ali and Iman Warith Muhammad disavow anti Semitic statements by Farrakhan. It ends by honoring J DeQuincey Newman s Independence Day address and asks if Jackson is listening.
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Jesse Jackson
Cuba
Central America
Mr. Jackson
Max Lerner
America
Walter Mondale
Superman
Martin Luther King
Muhammad Ali
Ali
Iman Warith
Muhammad
Washington
Louis Farrakhan
Nation of Islam
Farrkhan
Farrakhan
Iman Warith Muhammad
Jackson
Newman
State House
United States
Pendleton critiques Reagan on color blind hiring policy
Clarence Pendleton, once seen as pro Reagan, now criticizes the president for deviating from color blind hiring and contracting principles. He refused a Blacks only White House invite and opposes minority set asides, while questioning civil rights leaders' support for Reagan’s shifts ahead of election year politics.
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Clarence Pendleton
Reagan
U.S. Civil Rights Commission
Pendleton
White House
Mr. Reagan
Flag Fiasco of a Five Star U S Navy Flag
Navy lieutenant recalls a humorous wartime mishap aboard a barge awaiting Fleet Admiral Nimitz. A missing five star flag is improvised with a unique arrangement that shocks Nimitz, who reveals the error with dry humor. The anecdote ends with relief as the flag is corrected and the barge finally moves. The tale reflects wartime duty, improvisation, and respect for rank.
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Nimitz
Guam
Johnsmith
Admiral
Letters to the El Alken Star Editor
Submissions are welcomed from readers at the El Alken Star. Letters must be signed in the writer’s hand with a full return address. Typed legibly preferred. Space and taste determine publication.
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Ikea
Quiz Kids Revisited and Its Lessons on Intelligence
Ruth Duskin Feldman traces 80 former Quiz Kids from the 1940s and shows most did not rise solely on IQ. The book argues persistence and willpower matter as much as intelligence, and experts urge re evaluating IQ as a measure. The piece notes past stars like Gerard Darrow and James Watson, plus theorists Getzels and Jackson, on creativity and humor in gifted children.
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Ruth Duskin Feldman
I.Q
New Zealand
Gerard Darrow
Life Magazine
Darrow
James Watson
Harve Bennett
Jack Lucas
Vanessa Brown
Joel Kupperman
Feldman
University of Chicago
Getzels and
Jackson
We Have No King But Caesar and the Secular State
Historian Roland Bainton warns freedoms hinge on both civil and religious liberty as the state presses secularism. In New York City, Archbishop O Connor and Salvation Army resist Mayor Koch s bid to ban discrimination while Bible believers fear eroding church state separation.
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Roland Bainton
God
King
Caesar
New York City
John J. O'Connor
Salvation Army
Ed Koch
Koch
Mt. City Hall
O'Connor
Wallace Conrath
Archbishop O'Connor
Colonel Conrath
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Normandy
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Meus
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CAL Thomas
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IRS
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Reverend Moon
California
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Newsweek Magazine
Vermont
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