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...increasingly audacious terrorists, who in the past year have been responsible for many of a score of political murders and 200 kidnapings. Donning his general's uniform, a stern-faced el Lider appeared on nationwide television last week, vowing a readiness to take "all pertinent measures" to crush terrorist groups. He warned that "if we don't have the law [to combat terrorists], we'll do it outside the law and we'll do it violently, because you can't oppose violence with anything but violence...
Indeed, only hours before the tape report was made public, Vice President Gerald Ford had launched that line in a strident, almost Agnewesque speech to the American Farm Bureau Federation in Atlantic City. He lashed out at "a few extreme partisans" who were determined to "crush the President and his philosophy" so they could "dominate the Congress, and through it, the nation." It was an ill-considered and surprising turnabout for Ford. Until then he had seemed fully aware of his delicate role as a possible successor who would be called upon to play a healing and conciliating role...
...military have taken up so much of our energy that we have neglected the blacks, the poor and students... I feel that the New Left and the black revolutionists...are doing God's work...in refusing any longer to submit to evil, and challenging society to reform or crush them...
Computer time is a precious commodity to scientists and engineers; the speed and capacious memory of the giant electronic brains are vital to operations as varied as space navigation and supermarket inventory control. Yet despite the crush at major computer centers on both sides of the Atlantic, more and more expensive computer time these days is being devoted to a deceptively simple game called "Life." Unlike most games, Life does not require an opponent; it is played not to win but to provide participants with an endless series of unexpected patterns that often seem to have a life of their...
Burly Crew. Despite the crush at the Guard, fights rarely erupt. A burly crew of five bouncers keeps order, ousting patrons who utter even the mildest of profanities. Hookers are immediately booted out. A strict dress code outlaws Levi's, tank tops and cutoffs. These rules apparently appeal to the clientele that seeks out the club: a conservatively dressed crowd of nurses and schoolteachers, pilots, salesmen and junior executives...