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...wake of last week's events in the Sudan, an Amsterdam cartoonist summed up the situation in the turbulent Arab world with a ring of rulers, each bent on doing in the next man. Reacting to the same event, a Beirut newspaper carried a cartoon showing a baffled Leonid Brezhnev trying vainly to fit the word "Arabs" into a crossword puzzle. The Soviet Communist Party leader has a good deal of company in his perplexity, particularly after the last few weeks. In addition to the coup and countercoup in Khartoum, there have been these astonishing spectacles lately...
...attitude was his admiration of the large animals he saw in Africa. "That rhinoceros," he noted. "Nobody fools around with him." Then, spotting a water buffalo, he commented: "There's a mean buffalo. No one tries to move him around." Agnew, after 21 years in office, is still bent on proving that, like the animals he admires, he will not be pushed around...
Publicity about the danger has so far not kept the girls off the curbs. A generation of young women seem bent on proving that they are formidable enough to take care of themselves...
AFTER a fortnight of legal fencing, the showdown shaped up late last week before the U.S. Supreme Court. A Government bent on preserving secrets for the sake of national security faced a press determined to print the facts as laid down in the now-celebrated Pentagon papers. All week long, the Government fought a running battle with restraining orders against two of the country's most respected newspapers. Attorneys for the New York Times and the Washington Post pounded away at the seldom-invoked practice of "prior restraint," arguing that the public's right to know...
With such a title, Robert Coles could at first be mistaken for one of the people he desperately deplores-that complacent horde of pigeonholers, polltakers, politicians, consumer experts and scholars who seem bent on reducing vast groups of individual Americans to some neatly labeled lowest common denominator of fear, status, greed or need. Coles, after all, is a Harvard psychiatrist. He has been seen in the company of notebook and tape recorder. For more than a decade he has studied and written voluminously about troubled children, blacks, migrant workers-all subjects that are now ritually lamented in near-faceless collectivity...