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There were other tensions at the 1969 conference; the two factions argued about the Black Panthers, which PL also scorned for advocating community control of police (it bred illusions that local communities could gain control) and for instituting the free breakfast program (it bred illusions that Safeway and other supermarket chains could "serve the people"). But the focus of the conflict was the war. Finally, the national leadership and about two-fifths of the conference stormed out of the meeting room, effectively leaving PL in control...
...root of the rising anti-Americanism, reports TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, is the fact that the proud and xenophobic Turks resent any sign of dependence on the U.S. "Atatürk's death in 1938 left Turkey in a limbo of incomplete Westernization," writes Coggin. "City-bred granddaughters of veiled harem favorites practice law and medicine in Ankara and Istanbul today. But in the Moslem countryside and small towns, where 80% of Turkey's 35 million people live, little has changed from centuries...
...vastly increased coverage of economic news made more people aware of the recession, even if it did not affect them directly, than were aware of the deeper, frequent downturns of the 1950s. Much of the political rhetoric of the last decade, moreover-"the new economics," "the Great Society" -bred hopes that the economy could be controlled and that Government intervention could ensure general prosperity. Many people believed that Richard Nixon, who attributed his 1960 defeat partly to that year's decline, would prevent another Republican recession...
LIKE most wars, the one in Indochina has bred an almost casual brutality. At Mien, a small town northeast of Phnom-Penh where bitter fighting raged two months ago, West German Photographer Dieter Ludwig was present when two Cambodian patrols returned from forays into chest-high rice fields. The first patrol brought in a North Vietnamese prisoner for interrogation (above); he talked freely after the second patrol arrived waving some grisly trophies-the severed heads of other North Vietnamese troops. Some of the Cambodians marked their victory by cutting the livers out of the enemy dead...
...back to the problem at hand-elitism. We are being bred as elitists, and taught to impugn the values of the middle class. Our bowling alley background is being purged from our consciousness, and we are subtly instructed to think of a bowling ball as a dirty thing. Take my roommate, for instance. When he was a high school student, bowling simply rounded out his secondary education. But since he's come to Harvard, he has not set foot inside a set of alleys, and says he has no desire to do so. He's been uprooted...