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Vast Monolith. Today, of course, it is part of the conventional wisdom that it was Chiang Kai-shek and his coterie of corrupt politicians and generals who "lost" China. But in the '50s, distinctions were not so easy to draw. Most Americans admired Chiang as a hero-and in many respects he was. Convinced of Nationalist China's democratic policies, the public saw the Generalissimo as a leader in the Western tradition and was moved by memories of his fight against Imperial Japan. The foreign left seemed a vast, threatening monolith. Given this new climate of fear...
...outset of the campaign, both candidates agreed that the principal election issue would be White's eight-year record as mayor. Timilty attacked allegedly corrupt fund-raising among city employees and criticized White's preference for appointing old-style politicians to office. He also pointed out that the city's tax rate rose by about $80 during White's two terms as mayor...
...Kent State verdict [Sept. 8] is one more illustration of the system's refusal to redress the most legitimate grievances of its citizenry. Those who still believe that it is possible to attain fundamental justice from the agencies of a corrupt and decadent power structure have one more tragic example of the uselessness of such misguided faith. Moreover, it is now abundantly clear that white middle-class youngsters are as vulnerable to the system's excesses as are blacks, Indians, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and poor whites...
...less visible competitor. Once this happened, of course, the film was defended by other black groups charging censorship. They claimed that although Coonskin indeed showed blacks as hookers, hoodlums and con artists, it also showed the principal characters as tough, smart and ultimately victorious over still worse oppressors-mainly, corrupt cops and vile mafiosi...
...with foreign Communist parties, and both of those characteristics--the independence and the socialist egalitarianism--appealed to us. When the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh, a Crimson editorial said, "The capture of Phnom Penh last week by the Khmer Rouge is a victory for the Cambodian people over the corrupt Lon Nol regime and the imperialist American policies that supported...