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...Cochin China. Journalist Gloria Emerson, who wrote with brilliant indignation about the war, pronounced bitterly a few years ago: "We are a people who drop the past, and then forget where it has been put." But the war in Viet Nam cannot be discarded with impetuous American blitheness. The civic and psychic mechanics don't work that way. The men (and as many as 7,500 women) who served in the war brought back with them pain and problems ? rage and guilt, sorrows and confusions ? that have gone ignored and unattended for years. Now, at last, they seem...
That painful legislative scene was more than matched by the violence that erupted last week in front of the civic parliamentary building in West Berlin. Thousands of youths, some armed with rocks and Molotov cocktails, clashed fiercely with police in a ten-hour riot that one West German television reporter luridly described as "resembling civil war." At least 76 policemen were injured. The ugly confrontation resulted from the eviction of housing squatters from several abandoned West Berlin buildings...
Crane's retirement--"I want to devote full time to the practice of law," he said--would seem to give the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) its best chance in several elections to gain a five-seat majority on the nine-member panel...
...Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee a copy of Peres' "personal and top-secret" letter that resulted in one of the raid's postponements. Peres had learned that the attack was scheduled for May 10, the date of the deciding round of French presidential elections. As a "supreme civic duty," he warned Begin not to go ahead. Peres felt, correctly, as it happened, that Socialist François Mitterrand would win, and that there were signs that the new French President would do everything possible to "make the Iraqi reactor impotent, militarily." Peres also warned Begin that the raid would...
...remember that the partnership of parents and neighbors, civic leaders and politicians must agree that the schools are the most important single asset the community holds in common. Let us assert that the duty of that partnership is to decide that the first priority for public money is the school system. And let us insist that schools have a role and obligation in the treasured common life beyond just schooling. When we have reassembled a vision of the purpose of school and of the means of education, then we can pass to the rebuilding of what is both a system...