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...corruption. Fear for their jobs prevents them from speaking in public the things they tell us in private. Instead the braver ones use jokes and double entendre to reveal some of their true feelings as well as to release their frustrations. On July 5th Mexicans go to the polls to overwhelmingly elect the hand-picked candidate of the PRI. And so goes democracy in Mexico...
Although it has not been possible to identify those individuals who engaged in the more seriously disruptive and intimidating activities that took place on December 11, the Committee has no doubt that this chain of episodes represented a clear progression toward greater gravity from the events of December 5th. The invocation of temporary suspension on December 11, along with the need to obtain a Court injunction in order to bring about the departure of those occupying University Hall, attests to the increasingly critical nature of occupations. There can be little question that both occupations, that of December 5 and that...
Delta Doubts. In another place, Vietnamization remains a promising but untried theory. As part of the Dong Tien (literally, Progress Together) program, ARVN's 5th infantry division has been undergoing intensive training by the U.S.'s 1st Infantry Division. When the Big Red One departs, probably under President Nixon's third round of withdrawals, scheduled to be completed by April 15, the Vietnamese will assume responsibility for guarding the critical northern approaches to Saigon...
...original cast album of Hair has sold nearly 3,000,000 copies, and the score has been recorded for various national posterities in Swedish, Spanish, French, German and Japanese. Back home, everyone from Andy Williams to the 5th Dimension has a Hair tune on his album. And the producers have opened bidding for the movie rights, now up to $2.5 million. Which just goes to show that, for American tribal love-rock musicals at least, this is most assuredly the Age of Aquarius. And bread...
...fact that the Puritan ethos not only posits the fall of man, it also implies the existence of an Elect of God. America has presumed itself to be God's chosen remnant, to the point where it very nearly subscribes to the anthropocentric heresy of Pelagius, the 5th century Christian ascetic who argued that man could gain salvation without divine grace by his efforts alone. Put in secular terms, the Pelagianism of America means an unshakable faith in the righteousness of the U.S. "We tend to think," argues Roman Catholic Philosopher Michael Novak, "that it is not and cannot...