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...Eyed and Aged. The East Bloc's orthodox leaders, notably East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, felt otherwise. Fearful that Dubček's reforms would ignite a liberal movement throughout the bloc, the Kremlin sent tanks to crush Prague's experiment. Because of his strong popular backing in Czechoslovakia, the Soviets for a time allowed Dubček to continue as party first secretary while compelling him to dismantle the very reforms that he had enacted...
...There's no question that we could crush the commandos," said a senior Lebanese army officer last week, "but that's not the whole problem. Any move we make against them brings 300,000 Palestinian refugees out of their camps and down on our necks. Most of them are armed, and we cannot cope with them and with the commandos." That was becoming a sadly familiar refrain in the tormented Middle East...
...Wasn't it Samuel Butler who said, about a century ago, that man is the only animal who doesn't realize that the purpose of life is to enjoy it? Somewhere beneath the crush of fears, inhibitions, traumas and guilt complexes in all of us, there's probably a basic being who knows full weil that's why he's here but doesn't know how to utilize the realization...
...copies. Analyzing the craze, Tokyo Psychologist Kazuo Shimada suggests that it satisfies a psychic need in the world's most crowded country. "Merely living here," he says, "breeds friction, tension and frustration. Betting on the horses is a means of alleviating that pressure." As for the crush of the crowds, he adds: "Where interests are one and the same, we clannish Japanese delight in the multitude, finding in it not solitude but a soothing sense of belonging...
...stop educating ourselves and others as to what the CRR is really all about, if we diffuse the pressure that we have brought to bear, we will allow Harvard to institutionalize and instrument of respression every bit as real, if not as lethal, as the machinery working to crush the Panthers...