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...Yeah. I guess. The Pistols, The Clash. They're all gone. Punk isn't what it used...
...this vocal conscience comes out of a long tradition. There were activist antecedents in the alternative culture of the '60s, but those were selfabsorbed and, as both Browne and Van Zandt point out, were intermingled with the drug culture. Perhaps inspired by such punk guerrilla bands as Britain's Clash and the Sex Pistols in the late '70s, rock has buried higher consciousness under high conscience. "It's a rebirth of the spirit we had in the '60s, but it is a little more pragmatic," says Don Henley, whose performance of his A Month of Sundays at FarmAid...
...bill that the Senate is to begin considering this week, but go a step further by placing an embargo on the importation of arms from South Africa. Reagan's Executive action should pre-empt Congress's almost certain passage of the sanctions bill and may thus prevent an angry clash between the White House and Capitol Hill over the issue. In South Africa, where racial violence last week spread for the first time this year to a white suburb, the President's action threatens to upset State President P.W. Botha's desperate attempts to contain the country's economic crisis...
...predecessors were, and a number of his subordinates have been replaced. On the other hand, Gorbachev has restored to grace Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, 67, who was removed as chief of staff by Chernenko. Ogarkov has been made operational commander of the Soviet Union's western front. His ideas sometimes clash with mainstream military thinking; he is thought to favor more emphasis on conventional, and less on nuclear, weapons. Says one senior Western diplomat: "The military cannot be too happy with the way things are going...
...Freshman Week and every moment you spend here thereafter, there is another part of Harvard. It's very different, but also vital to what you learn, how much you pay, how you're regarded by the real world and how you're treated in the unlikely event of a clash with the forces that lurk behind serenely closed doors here...