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...nuance, unless differing over a factor of a million is quibbling. That the planners for Suslov's funeral, a host of apparatchnik pressmen, and perhaps an entire popuation, could stifle the outreach of history with such an air of unconcern says something about human nature, and our ability to adapt to the needs of whatever sort of politics happen to entrap...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Burying the Dead | 2/20/1982 | See Source »

...says, acording to Alan Jones, no one has heard from Kirghiz remaining behind in the Pamirs, or the families who returned home, unable to adapt to their new life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dreaming of the Alaskan Wilderness | 1/14/1982 | See Source »

...Anglo" who lived in Miami during some of the area's fastest changing years (1975-80), I take issue with Mayor Ferré's statement that the "Anglos can't adapt." How could the situation be otherwise? English-speaking Americans have no job future there if they don't speak a foreign language. After five years of feeling like a foreigner in my own country, I moved back to New York-a refugee from South Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 14, 1981 | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

Certainly apartheid is morally indefensible; equally certainly, majority rule should eventually occur. But it must not occur immediately. As Prime Minister Botha said recently, "We must adapt or die." Those who call for immediate majority rule--and the concomitant bloodshed of revolution--pave the way for needless death and suffering...

Author: By Julian A. Treger, | Title: Slow and Steady in South Africa | 12/10/1981 | See Source »

...race that only 38% of those eligible to vote bothered to do so, while 58% of the Latin voters and more than 50% of the blacks went to the polls. "We've become a boiling pot, not a melting pot," says Mayor Ferre. "The Anglos can't adapt. They can't take it, so they're moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Florida: Trouble in Paradise | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

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