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...usually happens in revolutions, the forces of dissolution, once let loose, are not so easily tamed. Iran's economy suffered deeply, and unrest in at least three ethnic areas???those of the Kurds, the Azerbaijanis and the Baluchis?presented continuing threats to Tehran's, or Qum's, control. Many Western experts believe Khomeini shrewdly seized upon the students' attack on the U.S. embassy, which he applauded but claims he did not order, as a way of directing popular attention away from the country's increasing problems. It gave him once again a means of presenting all difficulties as having been...
...emergence of Zimbabwe (the blacks' name for Rhodesia). We are going into new areas???the exercise is to register about 3 million black Rhodesians, especially the tribesmen, many of whom are relatively uneducated and live in remote areas. Obviously, under these circumstances it is going to be complicated and time consuming. But I can say this: I will do everything possible to expedite this. The black leaders have agreed that it must be done correctly, otherwise we will be doing great damage to our whole cause...
Most New Yorkers, from silk-stocking districts to scabrous ghettos, responded with neighborliness and even bravery. But what shocked the city, and much of the world, was that tens of thousands of blacks and Hispanics poured from their tenements and barrios?in 16 areas???to produce an orgy of looting. In Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, in Manhattan's Harlem, in the South Bronx, the violence and plundering approached the levels of the 1968 riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The cry echoed through the ghettos: "It's Christmastime, it's Christmastime!" But to Abe Beame...
...almost all areas???business, the professions, blue-collar work, education, politics, the family?a new sensibility among both men and women has led to more enlightenment?and a restless understanding of how far away sexual equality remains...
Chancellor and Minister of Occupied Areas???Dr. WILHELM MARX (Centrist...
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