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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Humphrey urged that any people who give "any indication that they might commit an act of personal injury" to a President should be followed "like a shadow-like a private...
...under Kissinger's agreement to use with conventional warheads. Even so, Arab states were alarmed that Israel might tip the missiles instead with nuclear warheads. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger was also disturbed by the Kissinger understanding. The Pentagon insisted that it had had no warning that Kissinger would commit the U.S. to Pershings for Israel until the Secretary returned home with the Sinai agreement two months ago. As part of the accord, Kissinger had pledged the U.S. to "an early meeting to undertake a joint study of high technology and sophisticated items, including the Pershing ground-to-ground missile...
...worldwide social mechanism by which men control women. Says Brownmiller: "It is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear. Rather than society's aberrants or 'spoilers of purity,' men who commit rape have served in effect as front-line masculine shock troops, terrorist guerrillas in the longest sustained battle the world has ever known...
...Harrington, on the other hand, does not even seem willing to commit himself to a broad program for the redistribution of wealth. He doesn't buy the theory that George McGovern would have won more votes in 1972 if he had stuck to his proposals to tax 50% of all inherited wealth over $500,000 and to guarantee a minimum income to every American citizen. "My friends in the trade unions," he says, "told me that the reaction of their members had been, 'You mean if I win the lottery, that bastard is gonna take it all away...
Scarf's most recent research--on depression in women--grew out of her curiosity over why people--both men and women--commit suicide. A large percentage of women who attempt suicide are between 18 and 30, but most of them do not succeed. A large proportion of men who attempt suicide are in their early 50's and late 60's, and they do succeed. "Women take pills and ingest things. Men use guns and more violent means," Scarf says. "I'm interested in the active versus the passive aspects." She wrote articles on all these aspects of suicide...