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...FORTUNE magazine, which is devoted to environment. Roosevelt, writes Nixon, "described the conservation and proper use of natural resources as 'the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.' " Today, that may be true in a general sense. But it should not divert the nation's attention from the very specific and urgent problems of social justice and racial equality...
...University to resolve these issues, such resolutions can be accomplished only through a mutual cooperation and discussion. Issues and problems are not discoverable, in an atmosphere of turmoil. Quite apart from the difficulty of exploring questions under such circumstances, the inevitable effect of an overtly obstructive demonstration is to divert the attention and concern of all members of the University from the substantive problems to the fact of the obstruction itself...
Police said the group, led by a stunning 22-year-old girl who used to teach school in Lebanon, had apparently intended to divert the Tel Aviv-to-New York flight to Tunisia. There the Boeing 707 was to have been evacuated and blown up in an attempt to persuade TWA to stop flying to Israel. Though the plot failed and the three now face possible life imprisonment under Greece's tough new anti-explosives law, it was one more example of how Arab terrorists are increasingly exporting violence to the airports and office buildings of Europe...
Workers at Harvard Trust have been told that it is for the benefit of Harvard University students that they are staying open until 5:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday. This is a statement cleverly designed to take the blame off the management of the Harvard Trust and to divert attention from the central issue, namely, that they have gotten no raise with the increased hours...
...zingari, the compilers of cookbooks have turned to something really occult. Bats, eye of newt, serpents, felon's hands and less mentionable exotica seem to have formed the staple diet of the industrious witch. It should be said that this book serves no culinary purpose except perhaps to divert conversation among guests from the infamous concoctions some contemporary witch may happen to be serving in the name-not of the devil but Julia Child...