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Over the decades, national security became a uniquely compelling article of civic liturgy: legislators, bureaucrats and judges regularly bowed before its incantation, its aura of danger and patriotic self-interest. In its pursuit, public coffers coughed forth trillions of dollars and military budgets were gorged like French geese. It is hard to remember that national security has not always been with us as a national preoccupation. But it hasn't. Of late, it has become a hollow shell of an idea. It may be time to retire the term gracefully from service...
...warn of a "holy war" if De Klerk succeeds in carrying out his program. The A.W.B. has launched a campaign of intimidation against Welkom's blacks and has been accused of nighttime beatings. In early May, when armed squads began strutting in the streets during the day, the civic association in Welkom's black township of Thabong declared a consumer boycott. Suddenly white-owned shops were deserted, and losses mounted to about...
Council members backing the position--all members of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)--said the appointment of a new top administrator from outside Cambridge will help the city's police force develop new ways of fighting crime...
...Despite civic uproar, the Cincinnati show of Robert Mapplethorpe's photography is drawing over 2,500 viewers a day; previous exhibits drew 556 and 225 patrons daily...
Mesmerized by the prospect of a business boom that could produce thousands of new white-collar and service jobs, Milwaukee's civic leaders never gave much thought to the possibility of civil unrest. So it came as a shock when alderman Michael McGee proclaimed earlier this month that he was forming a Black Panther militia that would resort to "actual fighting, bloodshed and urban guerrilla warfare" unless the city did more to improve the lot of impoverished African Americans. Inner-city blacks, warned McGee, were fed up with white officials spending money on shopping malls and skyscrapers while prosperity passed...