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...curators went the spoils. The blue-and-white lectern emblem proclaiming NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 1977, which had hung for three hectic, fractious, exhilarating days in Houston, last week was headed for Washington's Smithsonian Institution. It will repose with such other memorabilia as the star-spangled banner that flew over Fort McHenry and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. And well it might...
...some investigative reporting in Nicaragua. Newsmen visiting an island near a small fishing village on the northwestern Zamora coast, just 40 miles from the Salvadoran border, uncovered the remains of what appears to have been a depot for smuggling arms to guerrillas in El Salvador, including a Sandinista army banner, rifle shell casings and a radio antenna. The discovery buttressed U.S. claims that Nicaragua routinely supplies the Salvadoran rebels by boat across the Gulf of Fonseca...
...arrangement is as follows: U.S. policymakers justify acts of aggression under the banner of what they call "U.S. interests," which take precedence over concepts such as international law, conventional morality, democracy and so on. Most important among these interests is that American banks and businesses be allowed to enjoy the "favorable economic climate" of U.S.-backed dictatorships, which keep wages and taxes low while providing cheap natural resources. Meanwhile the U.S. must constantly take care lest revolutionaries--fed up with the poverty, illiteracy and political terrorism under U.S.-sponsored military governments--lure these countries out of the Free World...
...claims 3 million followers. Furthermore, the two Nashville businessmen admittedly had little wealth, but refused to discuss the financing of their purchase of U.P.I. Insisted Ruhe at the time: "No one is behind us." As an unintended admission of unpopularity, that statement was uncomfortably true: their home-town Nashville Banner immediately dropped U.P.I, because of the furor...
These Americans are in their 30s today, but back then they were the Now Generation. Right Now: give me peace, give me justice, gimme good lovin'. For them, in the voluptuous bloom of youth, the '60s was a banner you could carry aloft or wrap yourself inside. A verdant anarchy of politics, sex, drugs and style carpeted the landscape. And each impulse was scored to the rollick of the new music: folk, rock, pop, R & B. The armies of the night marched to Washington, but they boogied to Liverpool and Motown...