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Here is the crux of the problem: "The President has no guns." A year ago, this was not the case. The "constitutionalist" revolution of April, 1965 gave the Dominican people their first, and perhaps their last, chance to break out of the political prison constructed for them by Trujillo and his heirs. The urban populace--in Santo Domingo and Santiago and San Francisco--armed itself, split and then defeated the military, and came within hours of constructing a new ruling coalition: liberal lawyers and professors, progressive businessmen, small peasants, students, and workers...
...Crux of the matter is Nasser's burning desire to mount a military offensive against Saudi Arabia, which has been aiding the Yemen Royalists in their fight against Nasser-backed Hassan al-Amri, the would-be dictator of Yemen. Russians in the Premier's entourage let it be known that Kosygin is willing enough to aid Nasser with arms and equipment in the Yemen war, but fears that a widening of the conflict to Saudi Arabia would bring about a "hot war" confrontation in the Middle East that neither Russia nor the U.S. wants. Hence, the Russians said...
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Terrorized by the Nazis, a bumbling Aryan carpenter (Josef Króner) turns his back on an old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Kaminska) whose fate is the crux of this Oscar-winning tragicomedy from Czechoslovakia...
...part due to the fact that its universities, though often glorious inheritances from the Renaissance, are not very numerous. West Germany has only 48 universities and other institutions of higher learning, Belgium 20 and France 40, while the Soviet Union has 719 and the U.S. 2,080. But the crux of the problem lies in the antiquated European grade and high school structure, which was progressive at the time of Napoleon and is now a positive drag...
That is the crux: most homosexuals apparently do not desire a cure. A generation ago, the view that homosexuality should be treated not as a vice but as a disease was considered progressive. Today in many quarters it is considered reactionary. Homophile opinion rejects the notion that homosexuals are sick, and argues that they simply have different tastes. Kinsey had a lot to do with this, for to him all sexual pleasure was equally valid. "The only unnatural sex act," he said, "is that which you cannot perform." His coauthor, Wardell Pomeroy, also argues that homosexuality should be accepted...