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...waterfall but that there may be escape as well. The Jerry Browns of the world are dangerous, but they are also full of promise; every gamble stands a chance. In this book at least, Tsongas seems entirely safe, and altogether unlikely to ever really change much. As the Clash would say, Death or Glory...
...delegates: "I am in the union to win battles and not to lose them. But if we do not have a strong leadership, we shall be losing battles." He added: "This will be my dictatorship for the coming two years. When we have nothing, and are headed for a clash quite soon, we have to be hasty and somewhat dictatorial." Criticizing the delegates for their internal bickering, he said that some of them were acting "like a bunch of clowns...
...poverty of the body and spirit that existed side by side in the city? Was the tranquility and contentment of a purely Indian civilization to be found only in the rarefied precincts of the upper Himalayas, where people rarely go? The streets of Calcutta feature one predominant conflict, a clash between cultures and the attitudes that have grown from the divergent educations and living conditions of its people. The college students who preached of eternal India were possibly as removed from it as I was, themselves contaminated by the impurities of affluence and bourgeois ambition; and they were characteristic...
...Middle East, Gaddafi was supported by the Palestine Liberation Organization, Syria, Algeria and South Yemen. P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat, whose commandos have received sizable amounts of arms and ammunition from Libya this year, called the air clash "the beginning of a new phase in the conspiracy against Libya and the Arab nation." Israelis, on the other hand, were relieved. "This will make our lives much easier," said a high-ranking officer in Jerusalem. As for Gaddafi's old enemy Anwar Sadat, the Egyptian President said nothing, perhaps to avoid the appearance of gloating. After weeks of rumors that...
...employing "hot pursuit" tactics: military incursions into neighboring black-ruled countries that bring the conflict closer to conventional war. Earlier this year South African commandos crossed the frontier into Mozambique and destroyed what they claimed to be an ANC headquarters near the capital of Maputo. In a more recent clash along the Angolan-Namibian border, several Angolan army regulars and at least two South African soldiers were killed. Such actions have provoked a pointed Angolan response: South African military observers report the deployment in southern Angola, allegedly with Cuban and East German aid, of sophisticated radar and surface...