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...state is limited too sharply, if all political groups can move out of the existing politico-legal framework, then the state will lack the power to intervene on behalf of the oppressed. The civil rights progress since 1957 has come through purposeful state coercion. While letting group pluralism run amok, Walzer should have affirmed the duties of power-the responsibility of the state to preserve itself and the nation, and to provide for the common welfare...
...Agnew is giving an appropriate and timely response to American intellectualism gone amok...
...Running Amok. Belatedly, the Quebec provincial government called out 600 infantrymen and 300 Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It also rammed through an emergency law ordering police and firemen back to duty by midnight under threat of heavy penalties, including fines of up to $100 a day per striker. Soon after midnight, the cops began reappearing, made more than 60 arrests...
...Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, the trouble in Montreal was "part of a total society which is running amok . . . I am not saying the upsurge of violence is a Montreal phenomenon. It is a modern-day phenomenon." On Montreal's Black Tuesday, however, it was a relatively small band of thugs, militant students and separatists that caused most of the damage. Only when the looting began did other, less committed opportunists join in. Ordinary citizens amused themselves chiefly by running red lights-but nothing more...
...hours later. Leno LaBianca, 44, the owner of four markets, and his wife Rosemary, 38, were slashed to death in their secluded home in the Los Feliz area. "It's a carbon copy," reported a policeman upon first viewing the scene, and fears of a maniac running amok quickly spread through the city. Indeed, there were chilling similarities between the two slaughters: the words ''death to pigs" smeared in blood on a wall, the mutilation of victims' bodies, a pillowcase over LaBianca's head and a lamp cord around his neck...