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Christianity as a Buffer...
...oriented members of the "official" I.R.A.-London faced some difficult decisions. The British could round up terrorist leaders and intern them under the Special Powers Act, but this might swing the Catholic moderates to the militant cause. The British could withdraw their troops, but then there would be no buffer between Protestants and Catholics. Or London could impose direct rule from Westminster, but this, too, would unite the Catholics and lead to greater violence...
Ever since Thieriot inherited control of the Chronicle in 1955, he has been slowly shifting to the right. More and more, Newhall was forced into a buffer position between his young liberal staff and the conservative publisher. The feeling among Newhall's associates last week was that the weary editor had left because he was just plain fed up with ideological disputes with his publisher. Thieriot, 56, denies any such division between himself, his staff, or Newhall for that matter: "It's not true that we're poles apart. We get along pretty damn well...
About 40 cooperative enterprises have sprung up. There is a credit union, a food coop, a "people's patrol" that helps thwart petty crimes and serves as a buffer when regular police come in, and a legal aid office. A gas station has been taken over by students and renamed "people's petroleum." The most important of the new organizations: an unofficial city council that coordinates the volunteer groups and lobbies before the regular county board...
...effort to build a buffer for Leningrad, the Soviet Union's second largest city, Stalin at that time demanded that Finland move its southern border to the north, beyond artillery range of the city. The Finns refused, and Stalin decided to use force. "The Finns turned out to be good warriors," says Khrushchev. "We soon realized that we had bitten off more than we could chew. The Finns would climb up into the fir trees and shoot our men at pointblank range. Covered by branches, with white cloaks over their uniforms, the Finns were invisible...