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Forced to confront the problem through heavy overlays of politics, emotion and history, different countries have found different answers. None have been notably successful. Not counting last week, when it found itself squeezed between Israeli determination and the weight of its own Nazi past, West Germany has seemed most comfortable with the acquiescent approach. Bonn has not forgotten the 1970 kidnaping of its ambassador to Guatemala, Count Karl von Spreti; he was summarily executed when a one-month-old Guatemalan government that was determined to strike a tough law-and-order posture refused to release 22 jailed Guatemalan terrorists...
Political reformers, exemplified by the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), confront the old line logrolling Democrats. "An alliance between the intellectual and economic elite and the lower-class backs faces middle and working class ethnics. Two educational philosophies, one promoting innovation and the academic curriculum, the other emphasizing discipline and occupational education struggle for supremacy. A home town boy born and bred is pitted against a well-traveled black from Chicago and the South...
...book deals with such contemporary problems as air and water pollution, rising taxes and the modern pressures that pull families apart. There is also a healthy effort to confront a certain moral complexity. "A Scout is true to his family, Scout leaders, friends, school and nation," states the Handbook. "But what if some friends take your sister's bike? They strip it and sell the parts. Where does your loyalty lie?" In the age of rip-off and radical capitalism, such a dilemma is not uncommon. In reply, the Handbook, unfortunately, takes the tone of Pollyanna rather than...
Author Brown is sometimes wordy and overpraising of his subject. All correction made, though, Ling comes through as an honest, essentially likable man. The book, however, does not confront the larger question of the effect of conglomerates, and whether or not Ling, whatever his intentions, was more of a force for good or ill in America. It is hard not to conclude that Ling and overreaching conglomerators like him have put a severe strain on the fabric of public trust in big business. The giddy ride up at LTV was a good trip for many shareholders and bankers; but when...
...most people, those credentials and invitations were well out of reach. In Flamingo Park, 4500 uninvited and unaccredited non-delegates--mostly young--plotted to disrupt and embarrass the Republicans. They sought to confront President Nixon once more over his policies of Vietnamization negotiated settlement and bombing in Vietnam...