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...even this lieutenant is anxious to kill students. But their attitudes display a distinct callousness to the fact that students can be hurt, and killed, by armed forces of law and order. When asked whether he had seen the pictures in Life of the Kent State incident and read the story, one officer replied, "I don't look at that magazine, they're a bunch of communists." Questioned further as to whether he thought the Guard had acted intelligently at Kent, the officer professed not to know the "facts...
...possibility that America has reached its end time haunts the authors of three of these exercises in national self-appraisal. The fourth assumes that an American doomsday is a distinct probability. In former times of trouble, even America's severest critics usually shared the notion that the disappointing child they were shaking heads over was still a bouncing specimen; there was plenty of time to reform its ways. Now, little time seems left. All these skilled critics not only reckon on the chance of an American apocalypse; they simply take for granted that most Americans are living with...
...visionary aims are taking shape. Thousands of peasants have flocked to the "satellite cities" that spread out from Brasilia to a distance of 25 miles. Trucks rumble along the 1,350-mile Belem-Brasilia highway, spawning hundreds of roadside settlements, some of them with a distinct frontier flavor. At one hamlet, appropriately called Piza no Freio (Hit the Brake), the only permanent residents are a madam and her four girls...
What I intended to point out is that Stalinism-or at least that aspect of institutional Stalinism which remains distinct from the personality of the man himself-cannot be divorced from its historical context. Suppression of the Kronstad? revolt followed an invasion of the Soviet Union by 14 nations. In view of Russia's own starvation and impoverishment, the need for the Soviet Communists to treat international revolution in terms of the national interest" became a great deal more urgent. And the remarkable threats which Japan and the Nazis posed to Soviet national security-in combination with Stalin...
Along with other automakers, G.M. is also running into tougher problems with its labor force, including a distinct possibility of a U.A.W. strike against the company this fall. Chairman Roche complained in a February speech that absenteeism has doubled in the past decade to 5%, and work stoppages cost 13.3 million man-hours last year...