Word: consistencies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heap is the "prez," who, if he wants to stay there, had better respond to every threat and challenge. The "veep" supervises internal affairs, especially dues and initiation rituals; the "war counselor" plans the "ripoffs" and "gang-hits" and commands the "gestapo" squads, which consist of the enforcers; the "armorer" keeps the weapons functioning in a safe place such as an abandoned building or a girl friend's apartment. Even automatic and semiautomatic firearms-like M-16s and M-15s-can be bought or stolen. Also available for bigger bashes are hand grenades many decibels above the zip guns...
Perhaps the major question that remains unanswered is whether the slow move toward the core will result in an innovative system of education, or whether it will simply consist of the old General Education program with new labels--whether it will be, as Beer put it, the idea of the modern era, or simply the idea of the '40s revisited...
...like an Emerson Lake & Palmer reception. From the start, ELP has known how to get attention: their opening set at the 1970 Isle of Wight festival, the group's first major gig, was announced by the roar of two cannons. But the fireworks that have made ELP rich consist of an innovative, complex kind of rock that seems to carry on the adventure of the Beatles' 1967 precedent-shattering Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Right now ELP's aim is not noise but the successful blending of both rock group and orchestra. Those bands...
SUDAN. Pop. 18 million. Chief export: cotton. Religion: predominantly Islam. The armed forces consist of 53,000 men. President Jaafar Numeiry, who is vigorously antiCommunist, has lately been developing close ties with the U.S., which is supplying military transport planes to Khartoum. Numeiry is backing the Ethiopian rebels plaguing the Addis Ababa regime...
...this effort will be devoted to direct plugging of the President's program; much of it will consist of general save-energy pitches. Says Siegel, who is coordinating the p.r. drive with Schlesinger's press aide Jim Bishop: "We cannot really act in terms of legislation until the people are convinced that there is a crisis. We feel that there's been a breakthrough in that regard, and we're going to take advantage of it." Oddly, though, the White House talks down the whole campaign; Press Secretary Jody Powell would have reporters believe there...