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...more of the CIA's dirty tricks? They toppled popular governments and substituted oppressive dictatorships in Iran, Guatemala and Chile, thus earning for America the hatred of freedom-loving people in those countries and elsewhere. Why should we fan anti-Soviet paranoia by implying that only they commit "brazen and brutal" aggression, as in Afghanistan. In recent years the U.S. has intervened militarily in the Dominican Republic and in Viet Nam to impose governments favorable to us. We do not need a renewed imperialist image but a people-loving image...
...hour ordeal that confronted Spain's struggling young democratic regime with its most serious challenge since the death in 1975 of Dictator Francisco Franco. Never in postwar memory had the democratically elected parliament of any Western nation been subjected to such an outrage. To many Spaniards the brazen act was all too reminiscent of Franco's own assault on a fragile Spanish republic in 1936; that coup had triggered a bloody three-year civil war and ushered in 40 years of dictatorship. Would his diehard followers now bathe the Cortes in bloodshed and perhaps again bury Spanish democracy...
...Valere. By this time, everyone else in the household has become sick from Tartuffe's hypocritical moralizing and pretended disapproval of even the innocent pleasures of dancing and receiving company. They plan to unmask Tartuffe's real nature to Orgon and arrange for him to view secretly Tartuffe's brazen advances on Elmire, Orgon's wife. Orgon, at last convinced, drives Tartuffe from the house (but not without several last-minute complications...
Soviet strategy has been, and will probably continue to be, brazen and brutal. But it has not been, and probably will not be, reckless. In picking their targets, the Kremlin leaders chose nations that the U.S. had somehow denied as outside its area of national interest. Congress did so explicitly in the case of Angola in 1975; the Carter Administration did much the same with Ethiopia; poor Afghanistan was effectively conceded to eventual Soviet domination as far back as the '50s, when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles left it sandwiched between the U.S.S.R. and the now defunct Central...
Last week's raid came after three local colleges, upset by the ghostwriters' brazen sales tactics, complained to officials. Says James A. Malone, dean of students at John Jay College of Criminal Justice: "I have personally chased off peddlers hawking handbills just outside the school. We even have a person assigned just to remove these advertisements from campus bulletin boards...