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Secretary Laird's explanation for the bombing-that the North Vietnamese were being justly punished for firing on an American spy plane in their skies-is a crude lie. The reaction of North Vietnam to an intruding American airplane is understandable and justified. Perhaps the North Vietnamese remember the single American plane that flew over Hiroshima...
Herbert Stein, a member of Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, stressed in Newport Beach, Calif., the importance of keeping wage settlements at a reasonable level. The inflationary General Motors pact underscored that need (see BUSINESS). Then the Administration announced that it would investigate an increase in crude-oil prices scheduled by Gulf and Atlantic Richfield. The inquiry, together with Stein's statement, seemed to be at least a token move toward direct Government pressure to check wage and price rises...
...After World War II, our scarecrows were grim and military," he says. "Many wore steel helmets and discarded uniforms." Then came an "American period"-mechanized scarecrows with waving arms affixed to crude clockwork. Now that Japan is more affluent, scarecrows are more elaborate. Some wear business suits; others, inspired by TV films, simulate fierce samurai warriors and angry student demonstrators...
...real-life world of the blue collar worker is one of not quite making it, and a keen sense of diminished status. Some of it is portrayed, in crude and exaggerated form, in the much-acclaimed movie Joe. Certainly not all workers are as bigoted as Joe Curran, though his counterpart can be found on any picket line or at the wheel of many a New York City taxi. But his pleasures are real enough?whisky, the bowling alley, a gun collection?and so are his yearnings for a taste of life on the other side of the middle-class...
...formation of "firing groups" consisting of no more than four or five persons. "No firing group can remain inactive waiting for orders from above," writes Marighella. "Its obligation is to act." Who is eligible for Marighella's firing groups? Just about everybody, including students, since they are "politically crude and coarse and show a special talent for revolutionary violence," and women, for their "unmatched fighting spirit and tenacity...