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...Federal government soon regretted that treaty. Four years later, a white man discovered gold in the Black Hills, and a flood of white men descended onto Indian land, armed with a gleam in their eyes and a total disregard for the 1868 treaty...
...prisoners under way. But last week the State Department publicly expressed "concern," and President Nixon himself followed up by demanding that Hanoi accept the limitations imposed by the Paris Accord. "Based on my actions of the past four years," he declared, "the North Vietnamese should not lightly disregard such expressions of concern." He seemed to be implying that, if the infiltration continues, he would renew the U.S. bombing of Communist supply lines...
Chomsky said that when the U.S. publicly announced its interpretation of the Paris agreements in January, "an honest press would have said 'U.S. announces intention to disregard Paris agreement...
...Each announces, "I came into the world..." and begins a work which consists of nothing but confessional sentences beginning with "I." Amid a set that looks like Design Research kindergarten toys, the actors deliver such lines as "I learned to distinguish between nouns and verbs," "I appropriated property in disregard of the general welfare," "I opened my eyes during sexual intercourse." It's all very interesting--for the first three minutes...
Ideology. Apart from such geopolitical problems, Europeans must cope with ever-increasing inroads of Americanization on their own more traditional and stratified societies. Europe has simply not produced a competing ideology to defend itself against the impact of American emphasis on mobility, expansion, informality and disregard of class barriers and inherited privilege. Yet there is a widespread feeling that the U.S. is in chaos, deeply divided, unable to act, and economically on the fringe of a major crisis. Such British America-watchers as Louis Heren and Andrew Shonfield wonder about the imponderable effect of a triumph of conservatism...