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Mayor Kevin H. White plans to ask Raoul Berger, Warren Senior Fellow in American Legal History at the Law School, to help construct a legal brief challenging court decisions ordering forced busing in Boston, an official close to the mayor said yesterday...
Neither rain nor thaw will stay the bobsled racers from their rounds at speeds up to 70 m.p.h. at Innsbruck. The course, which cost $5 million to construct, is artificially refrigerated. Unfortunately, say the speed freaks who will use it, it is too safe and far too short. West German Baker Wolfgang Zimmerer, who won a gold and a bronze in Sapporo in 1972, complains that the brevity of the course places undue emphasis on quick starts...
...support he would like to see in the Congress. Referring to the critics of our continued involvement in the world, he expressed hope that "we will get back to the post-World War II era, when Senator [Tom] Connally and Senator [Arthur] Vandenberg could and did work together to construct in the Congress a bipartisan foreign policy." He continued: "The role and the responsibility of the U.S. [is] to meet our obligations not only to ourselves and our security but, on a broader basis, to get some answers to the problems of the world conflict...
...hand, is largely concerned with strategic opposition to American power in the south Atlantic. While it is regrettable that the MPLA--the only Angolan party dedicated to protecting its country from foreign exploitation and economic domination--must depend on Soviet aid to survive and perhaps allow the Soviets to construct a military base in Angola, the massive effort of western imperialism to destroy the MPLA leaves it no choice...
Unger here is at the precipice of his analysis. Liberal thought and its revisions are in ruins below him--he looks out toward a new kind of society. But he has caught himself in his own trap: because the general can never accurately describe a particular, he can construct no clear vision of what should come about. The rudiments of his new theory, as formulated, is open to pretty much the same attacks he levels at Marxism. In attempting "total" criticism, Unger launched an attack not merely upon liberalism, but upon the concept of theory itself. And it is probably...