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...increasing number of Communists argue that they did not vote Communist in order to prop up the hated Christian Democrats. What most worries party leaders is militant action beyond their control-the scores of brief, unauthorized strikes and protests that have been taking place across the country. This discord reached even into the highest echelons of the party. At the mid-October session of the central committee, the frail, 76-year-old Luigi Longo, who was Berlinguer's predecessor as party boss, challenged the tactic of non-opposition because it put "the interests of the party in second place...
...personalities, he was still bitter about the primary fight. Said he: "You can live a full, rich life and never run against John Conlan." Conlan was making no move to heal the party's wounds either, which was good news to the obvious beneficiary of all the G.O.P. discord: Dennis DeConcini, 39, of Tucson, a former county district attorney, who handily won the three-way Democratic primary. If the split among Arizona Republicans continues, he will have a good chance of regaining the Senate seat that Democrats lost eight years...
...only discord involves possible demonstrations. The Kansas City Convention Coalition, a mixed bag of protesters ranging from homosexuals to Yippies and anarchists, requested a permit to camp out in Penn Valley Park, a large expanse just behind the Crown Center, where President Ford will be staying. The city refused. Last week the coalition announced that it expected at least 2,500 demonstrators and that despite the turndown they would camp in Penn Valley Park, bathe in the park's small lake and dig latrines with a rented backhoe. That threat was greeted with some truculence. "By God," countered Parks...
...never before has a people deliberately set out to establish its political life on a principle so pure. Some argue that it is too pure a principle for fallible men. George III may be wrongheaded, they acknowledge, but the British monarchy is all that stands between the Americans and discord, disunity, and that brutish world of brutish men that the English Philosopher Thomas Hobbes envisioned more than a century ago. These skeptics dismiss as naive optimism the arguments of the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau that natural man is good and is corrupted only by society. Nor, they...
There are many historical and institutional reasons for the discord that now cripples the GSD: the last dean's laissez-faire approach left the school in administrative turmoil and on the brink of fiscal disaster; the relatively small GSD is especially vulnerable at Harvard, where each "tub" must stand on its own budgetary "bottom"; and physical designers, quantitative planners, and user-oriented GSD students and faculty have continually disputed the appropriate recipe for a design education. The list goes...