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Since 1802--when Congress established the academy to train officers for the army--officers-to-be have passed through the halls of what one historian has called this "citadel of sense and stability." Although things at West Point look much the same as they have for decades, much has changed since Douglas W. MacArthur led his class of cadets through the Long Gray Line. No longer can upperclassmen harass plebes throughout meals so they don't get a chance to eat; no longer must plebes be able to spout back on command how many lights there are in Cullen Hall...
Strikes in Poland [Sept. 15] have exposed a paradox of modern history: no external force could shake the closed citadel of a Communist regime except the very workers who were regarded as the vanguard of the proletarian revolution...
When Jimmy Carter stood before the 1976 Democratic National Convention and pledged "new leadership," he had never met a Democratic President or slept in the White House. The presidency was a legend from books, the Federal Government a classroom exercise, and Washington was a distant citadel of power that somehow had been corrupted by its residents. "It's time for the people to run the Government," Carter told his audience in that moment of warm, rising hope that filled New York's Madison Square Garden...
Racial hostility is so high in Boston that blacks fear to walk into South Boston, citadel of the city's Irish, as much as whites fear going into black Roxbury. Even in boomtown Houston the frame shacks of the city's blacks still stretch for blocks almost within the shadows of the tall new office buildings...
...Communist Party's own vaunted internal discipline has suffered; last month, for the first time, more than 30 left-wing Communist deputies rebelled against their party whips on a foreign policy vote in Parliament. By going to China, which Italy's militant left regards as a citadel of conservatism and an ally of the imperialist U.S., Berlinguer risked further alienation of his left wing. Most of all, his independent stance could lead to "a formal disowning of the Italian Communist Party by the Soviets," as Columnist Vittorio Gorresio wrote in Turin's influential daily La Stampa. Combined...