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...subscribed to Mailer's theory of discussion-cum-boxing, and for a long time I've tried to find courses that promise academic pugilism. I looked for that idealized seminar room infused by the hovering spirit of the Marquis of Queensbury. In this age of laxness, I reasoned, men confront law school rather than German troops at the Marne--we must endeavor to substitute verbal missiles for military ones, and to replace infantry swords with forensic ones...
Edison Zvobgo, Deputy-Secretary General of the Zimbabwe National Union, speaking to a gathering of 100 students last night, urged revolutionary students around the globe to take to the streets, and confront those who would support the "imperialists" against the African liberation movements...
Britain can ill afford another minority government. More than anything else, it needs a Cabinet with enough strength and confidence to confront the country's economic problems: inflation approaching a rate of 20% annually, 700,000 unemployed now and an expected 1 million out of work next year (4% of the work force), a stock market that has plunged to a 16-year low, and a balance of payments deficit that could top $10 billion this year...
...theory on why the reaction is taking place: "Once you get an institution to accept the fact that they have been discriminating, and after you show them how to stop discriminating, you expand competition. White males must now compete with groups that they never had to confront before and this is a threat to their security. Then they have to find means to discredit the new competition in any way possible...
...economy clearly presents Ford with a set of his most baffling and urgent problems. The new President is moving cautiously to confront them; Press Secretary J.F. terHorst vows that Ford will not be an economic "cowboy," firing impulsively right and left. Ford has withheld announcing a detailed economic program until after his widely advertised "economic summit" meeting Sept. 27 and 28, at which he will seek ideas from corporate chiefs, private economists, labor and farm leaders -"the total spectrum of American society," as he somewhat grandiosely put it. The big summit will be preceded by a series of minisummits...