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...enlarging what is already by far the largest military force in Central America? Why do they want a handful of MiG-21$, which could be destroyed in minutes bx U.S. carrier based fighters? The answer is quite straightforward: through a combination of internal military oppression and cultivation of a bogus external threat, the Sandinistas are trying to strengthen their domination over the people, to deny the pluralistic spirit of their revolution, and to destabilize and tyrannize their neighbors...
...that Jo-Pel claimed to be doing on the subway project. One tactic, Merola claims, was for Jo-Pel to bill Schiavone more than $90,000 a month for "renting" tunnel-digging equipment that Donovan's company let Jo-Pel use free of charge. Schiavone officials passed these bogus rental bills along to the New York City Transit Authority, which then paid Schiavone. In all, Schiavone collected some $12 million for work it claimed that Jo-Pel had done; in fact, according to Merola, Jo-Pel's effort was worth only some $4 million...
...orator, Woodhull bowed to no man. "We mean treason; we mean secession..." she declared. "We are plotting revolution; we will [overthrow] this bogus Republic and plant a government of righteousness in its stead." When someone dared to ask whether she practiced her preachings of free love, she defiantly answered, "Yes! I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may." Some suffragists were embarrassed by Woodhull's flamboyance, but Stanton said, "If Victoria Woodhull must be crucified, let men drive the spikes...
Those prospects have excited something resembling panic among many employers. A few factories in the Los Angeles area are already laying off workers they suspect may be in the U.S. illegally. Some bosses fear they may be fined for hiring workers who present bogus credentials. These executives vow to be choosy about whom they employ, even at the risk of provoking antidiscrimination suits by rejected minority applicants. "Let 'em sue," says Arnold Schwedock, executive director of the New York-based Ladies Apparel Contractors Association. "Concern about penalties comes first...
THERE IS ALWAYS something vaguely amusing about the study of pop culture, especially when it's taken too seriously. Like a teacher reading all sorts of bogus significance into a student's simplistic works, so too do the great Makers of Pop Significance read profundity into the sometimes brainless meanderings of rock and movie stars...