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...NATIONAL news media inform us that the student left is in shambles; that it is fragmenting and dying. Columnists report that students have repudiated radicalism. Buildings will no longer be taken over, burned, or bombed; and students are going back to studying, partying, or campaigning, isolating a few crazies bent on anarchy. Part of this is true: organizationally, the student left is fragmenting. This does not mean that it is dying...
...teachers did little or nothing to halt the disturbances, although some informally constituted themselves as marshals. One who watched, helpless, as the ROTC building burned, told the commission: "I have never in my 17 years of teaching seen a group of students as threatening, or as arrogant, or as bent on destruction." THE FUTURE. The jury, citing recent meetings at the university, said that "all the conditions that led to the May tragedy still exist." Referring to two Yippie rallies last week, the jury said: "What disturbs us is that any such group of intellectual and social misfits should...
Turning his attention to the terrorists, he went on: "If a democratic society is to continue to exist, it must be able to root out the cancer of an armed, revolutionary movement that is bent on destroying the very basis of our freedom." He conceded that the War Measures Act conferred "strong powers, and I find them as distasteful as I am sure you do." But he pleaded for understanding. "I appeal to all Canadians not to become so obsessed by what the government has done today in response to terrorism that they forget the opening play in this vicious...
...fedayeen, non-Palestinian Jordanians are not bent on overthrowing Hussein, but the King's attempts to repress the guerrillas have turned many of that group against him. Even neutral Jordanians were repelled by the brutality of Hussein's army. In Amman, Bedouin soldiers slew wounded guerrillas, some while they lay helpless on stretchers. Others looted stores and houses and raped women at gunpoint. Onlookers insist that these were not Jordanian at all, but the Bedouin mercenaries from Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia who constitute a third of Hussein's army. "These foreign legionnaires didn't look...
...investigations in wood form and function. This led to what the Herman Miller Company catalogue called "America's most famous modern chair" -two doubly curved molded plywood components, one for the seat and the other for the back, which were connected with rubber shock mounts to the plywood and bent steel rod legs. The aristocrat of the Eames family is the black, leather-up-holstered lounge chair, but what became every man's chair was Eames' molded fiberglass stacking chair...