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However, South Africa has the means and may have the will to keep white Rhodesia out of the abyss. It could stabilize Rhodesia's pound and might tide Rhodesian farmers and industrialists over to better times. If worse came to worse, South African troops could quell disorders in Rhodesia...
Brink of an Abyss. At week's end, in a brief ceremony at the National Palace in downtown Santo Domingo, García-Godoy was officially installed as his country's 47th President. He is, by all accounts, an able, well-regarded man: a middle-of-the-road liberal and a foreign minister under ex-President Juan Bosch. "We are a country," said García-Godoy in his inaugural speech, "at the brink of an abyss. We must react with honest administration, intensive popular education, the establishment of a civil service, an agrarian reform, an armed forces...
...nihilistic than Nietzsche, and this book can support that view. God is variously defined as a bull, a "bluebird with red talons," the "supreme uncertainty." "Life's true face," says Kazantzakis, "is the skull." The place to build one's home is on the brim of the abyss...
There were the familiar complaints about the computerized life. Poet James Dickey warned at California's San Fernando Valley State College that, on the edge of the "anonymous modern abyss, you must develop your private brinksmanship, your strategies, your ruses, your delightful and desperate games of inner survival, whether they take the form of Batman comics or whistling Handel's Water Music, enabling you to live perpetually at the edge but very much on your own ground." It was Yale's President Kingman Brewster who perhaps best expressed the mood of the commencement speakers. After warning against...
...held without bail, and Military Editor Conrad Ahlers was forcibly sent back from a vacation in Spain. In the Defense Ministry, Strauss issued a hastily prepared memorandum charging that Der Spiegel had betrayed military secrets. In the Bundestag, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer shook with rage as he denounced "an abyss of treason in this land." The public and press reacted in a different way. "Gestapo!" roared newspapers throughout the land. Students marched in protest in Hamburg, Munich and Berlin. Five Cabinet officers resigned, forcing Adenauer to fire Strauss...