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...Levy court-martials had to do with discipline and politics. Discipline is what the Service wants more than anything else from its men, and independent political thought is one of the gravest conceivable dangers to discipline. Not surprisingly, the Army gets paranoid as soon as a serviceman's politics drift left of far right. Levy, for instance, combined his questioning of the war effort with civil rights work in Mississippi. The Pesidio defendants had the bad luck of sitting in two days after a major west coast anti-war protest in October. 1968. Imagining some connection between the "mutiny...
...very worried about B and G's herbicide program: the questionable chemicals are used in very small quantities and the evidence of direct danger to humans is inconclusive. The current furor over herbicides focuses on the massive acrial sprayings in Vietnam, where huge doeses of herbicides sometimes drift into drinking water supplies...
Williams's group has raised its moths in Medford during the summer toavoid pesticide fogs that may drift into the Bio Labs from nearby areas...
...control the purchaser, the relatively conservative Los Angeles Times Mirror Co.,* plans to exert over the liberal Long Island daily, the transfer of Guggenheim's 51% raises some intriguing questions. Why did he choose to sell at all? The answer: A conservative, Guggenheim was disappointed by the liberal drift the paper had taken under his hand-picked heir apparent, Publisher Bill Moyers. Ailing at 79, the Captain also wanted to ensure that the six heirs of his late wife would not gain control. Alicia Patterson was the force behind the paper for two decades following its founding...
...Another important element in Singer's work is the cast of demons, goblins, and witches who drift in and out of his stories with all the caseof spirits passing through a wall. It is hard to ask Singer to analyze the supernatural and the mystic element of his work: for as he once remarked. "To ask a writer what elements he used in writing is like asking a chicken what chemicals it used in laying an egg." Yet supernatural forces and the wisdom of the Cabbala (a Jewish book of mystecism) play an important role in his life...