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...leaders' TV appearances and play in the press invaluable as indicators. After receiving a coveted invitation to the Lenin memorial celebrations, Schecter bought a pair of 6 x 24 binoculars in order to get a better look at Politburo members from the foreign press balcony. "A Kremlinologist could construct a whole theory of leadership," reports Schecter, "on the basis of who talked to whom, who frowned, who rubbed his eyes or who pulled his earphones out during what speech." But this, of course, is only one small part of the constant search for a new fact, clarification, nuance...
...MANY PEOPLE have claimed to "understand" the South, its mystery and irrationality. Richard Nixon thinks he understands it well enough to construct a "Southern Strategy" as the foundation for his political power. Ironically, the President, who accused the Senate of "regional discrimination" when it defeated his second Southern Supreme Court nominee, has fallen victim to the eternal myth of the South-that it is so vastly different from the rest of America...
During recent months, Kahn-Tineta has travelled 11,000 miles on a fund-raising tour. She has visited Alcatraz Indian Island, spoken on many reserves, and addressed Indian groups across the United States. She frequently confers with Iroquois ironworkers who construct skyscrapers in the U.S. but live on her reserve in Canada...
MOREOVER, the type of sewage plants that the Administration plans to construct is the type that fouls up the water with phosphates and nitrates. Meanwhile, the Administration, instead of fighting industrial polluters, gives them six months to prepare "plans" to lower pollution flow, even when one of the polluters, Jones and Laughlin Steel in Cleveland, continues to discharge cyanide, of all things, into the Cuyahoga River (which caught fire last spring). Yet the government refuses to raise the cost of polluting our rivers and streams...
...governmental money available, reformers stridently demand that several rivers be cleaned up. Anti-pollution campaigns are a luxury of an affluent society. So the money, instead of going directly into the hands of the poor and the minorities, hires anti-pollution industries, off spins of the polluters, to construct elaborate drainage and filtering systems. Naturally, everything is financed at taxpayers' expense...