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...decade of dangerously increased crime vastly complicated by overburdened courts and jails, that the rule of law has endured so well in the U.S. The violent strains of the past few years might, by many rules of human behavior, have led to vigilante gangs, urban civil war and brutal police and military retaliations. Sometimes they did. But overall, the New Left's nightmare of massive repression has become no more real than the rightists' premonitions of perpetual fire bombs and anarchy. Despite clangorous divisions in the nation, Americans remain almost remarkably united in settling most of their conflicts...
Right On! and Skezag are two cries of pain from the ghetto streets, brutal nonfiction films about what it means to be poor and black. In Right On!, three young men who call themselves the Original Last Poets face the camera with coolly controlled rage, chanting their lacerating lyrics of defiance, a street-corner compendium of jive, gospel and blank verse. "Die, niggas," sings one, "die, niggas, so black folks can take over!" Producer-Director Herbert Danska photographed the group on the streets and rooftops of Harlem and the Lower East Side, but his attempts to interweave their poetry with...
Within hours after launching a tank-led offensive in Dacca and other East Pakistani cities on the night of March 25, the Pakistan army imposed a virtual blackout on the brutal civil war in Bangla Desh (Bengal State) by expelling foreign newsmen. TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, who was among them, recently trekked back from India by Honda, truck, bus and bicycle to become the first American journalist to visit Dacca since the fighting started. His report...
...drive, perhaps this point could be forgotten. But there will be more My Lai prosecutions, including one of Col. Henderson for covering up the news of the massacre. And more importantly, publicity is finally arriving for Vietnam veterans who are announcing that American war policy is brutal and criminal. The Winter Soldier Investigations and this week's war crimes tribunals in Washington, D. C., should trigger the same curiosity as news about Calley...
...because of "the right reasons." Political consciousness and a historical perspective divorced from American propaganda are not easily attainable on a large scale. But an immediate end to the war is imperative even if only to salvage what is left of Southeast Asia. Constant emphasis on the criminal and brutal American war policy can only help. There will be no more Calleys only when there are no more Americans in Vietnam...