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...always the labyrinth of secrets that outsiders imagine. For this week's cover story on defense, Correspondents Bruce Nelan and Jerry Hannifin penetrated the maze and found, according to Hannifin, that the military is "one of the most accessible beats in Washington." "It's no bunker filled with manic Strangeloves planning the next war," says Nelan. "It's really like any other big company, except that its business is national security. People stop to chat in the halls, and the doors of the brass are open...
...shoes of John Harvard. Another young man states that at his prep school, black students were given a negative image of Harvard by that same issue." The HRBSA was prepared to concede that stereotypes could be ridiculed successfully especially when the characaturist was a buffon, such as Archie Bunker. When the stereotype came from a supposedly intelligent and literate magazine, however, it was suggested the humor was more properly perceived as a form of verbal aggression directed towards ethnic groups...
...might be argued that the use of stereotypes by Archie Bunker is an ideal way to use them, especially since one may even laugh at Bunker, the buffoon. But research on All in the Family shows that its impact is to reinforce the prejudice of those who are already prejudiced. There is very little movement ideologically among those who watch it. Indeed a faculty colleague reported that while in the South observing a White Citizen's Council rally, to be held at 6 p.m., he was astounded to hear the reason for the early start. The speaker ended the rally...
...entire process of Vietnamization was a lie. It was not an attempt to wind down the war--as we have seen, its ferocity increased. Rather, as Elsworth Bunker has stated, it was a policy aimed at "chaning the color of the corpses." It was not the deaths that concerned Kissinger, but rather the death of Americans and the division it created in America. By substituting dead Vietnamese for dead Americans, he hoped to be able to continue the war with political impunity. Such racism must be condemned...
...reaped a handsome profit as prices rose. The CFTC appears to fear a similar coup in soybeans. It charged that if the Hunts held on to all their positions, "price distortion or manipulation activity ... could cause serious injury to the American public," presumably by forcing soybean prices skyhigh. Nelson Bunker Hunt views the action against him as a political maneuver. Snorts Hunt: "Dozens of families trade like this. If your name is Hunt and you're from Dallas, then it must be a conspiracy...