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...Council. These people support neither AIM nor the Council, and do not understand the struggle between these two groups. They only fear that now that AIM has packed its bags and left Wounded Knee, the already difficult battle for survival will be made tougher by a governmental backlash...
...Parts of your article on "Raid at Wounded Knee" would be laughable if they were not tragic, especially "a backlash from an angry white majority." Are you serious? Angry white...
...tough tactics left a violent trail-the local Chamber of Commerce gutted by fire and at least 37 Indians arrested. This kind of periodic outburst infuriates many Indians, who condemn the use of violence. One obvious reason: possible gains may be canceled out in the backlash from an angry white majority...
Just as well. There had already been quite enough changes in this particular area. At one time, if Father was to be believed, sex was a relatively simple matter. You just got on with it. Not today. The puritanical backlash in the late '70s, which followed the so-called age of permissiveness, had produced all kinds of rules and regulations. Necking in public was prohibited throughout Europe and trial marriages were out. All the strip clubs had been closed in 1977, and there were no more shows like Oh! Calcutta! Women's lib had also changed the whole...
This time, for what it was worth, the blame for the outburst of violence could be leveled at the Protestant side: the long-feared backlash was a fact at last. For the British army, the renewed violence created a second front, a vicious situation in which its men were being shot at by both Protestant and Catholic extremists. The flare-up caused the British government to order yet another round of troop reinforcements for Northern Ireland. It remained to be seen whether, in the long run, the two-sided sniping at Britain's army would lead British public opinion...