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...wicked country, and we cannot abide a wicked government," says Church. He prefers to talk not of "assassinations" but of "murder-a simpler, clearer term." Says he: "The U.S. cannot involve itself in any way in murder. The notion that we must mimic the Communists and abandon our principles [is] an abomination...
Nomad Independence. Spain's sole remaining colony, the Spanish Sahara, has also been an increasing source of trouble for the regime. During the past five years, Madrid has invested $400 million in developing the colony's rich phosphate deposits. Now Spain is planning to abandon the whole area. The reason: threats by neighboring Arab states to liberate all or part of the sparsely populated (60,000 nomads), mineral-rich region. Pressure on Madrid intensified last month when ten Spanish soldiers based in the Sahara disappeared. Their fate remains unknown. It has also been reported that Moroccan troops fired...
...paper event" itself is what Mallardi refers to as a "structured improvisation." As choreographer she provided the structure long strips of kraft paper which the dancers contemplate, hug, tear into balls, build with, and eventually, abandon. But the dancers-a mixed group of Harvard students and the "outside people" who have come to study with her-have to make something of the structure, leaving the "paper event" as much theirs as it is Mallardi...
Last week, in a move to soften international criticism, the U.S. indicated willingness to abandon its longstanding opposition to agreements aimed at stabilizing commodity prices. In a Kansas City, Mo., speech, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said: "We are prepared to discuss new arrangements in individual commodities on a case-by-case basis as circumstances warrant...
...Hess's articles of faith that the Government should be radically reduced as well as reorganized. "I also think the public school system is a failure and prudent people should abandon it." Not by violence, however. Anarchists like the 19th century Frenchmen FranÇois Ravachol, and Edouard Vaillant who tossed a bomb into the National Assembly, assumed that bombs and bullets would be necessary to free mankind. Hess, who has been arrested three times for participating in an antiwar demonstration, is willing to forgo force in favor of example. Like many a true believer, he is convinced that...