Word: east
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interest of the working man," refused admittance to one reading "Crush Capitalism." However, they let another go by reading "Abolish Sweden." In divided Berlin, fog and rain kept most Berliners at home watching competing parades on TV. There were four in all, divided between West and East Berlin. In its typical out-of-step-with-the-times fashion, East Berlin held an old-fashioned military march-past. In Hamburg, Foreign Minister Willy Brandt was heckled by students and greeted with "Sieg Heil!" salutes...
...classic case of myopic "crisis management." What seemed immediately workable, they say, was quickly done without regard to moral and political consequences. Noam Chomsky, a leading war dissenter, has lambasted such thinking in his acute if intemperate book, American Power and the New Mandarins. Chomsky cites one Far East expert who assured a congressional committee that the North Vietnamese "would be perfectly happy to be bombed to be free." Another scholar proposed that the U.S. tame China by buying up all surplus Canadian and Australian wheat. As he saw it, the resulting Chinese famine would be "only incidental...
Intellectuals should learn to master the art of dissent within government, a problem that has greatly changed since the days of Thomas More and Machiavelli. James C. Thomson Jr., a former East Asia specialist at the State Department and White House, writes that in the internal Government debate over Viet Nam, "doubters and dissenters were effectively neutralized by a subtle dynamic: the domestication of dissenters." As soon as former Under Secretary of State George Ball began to express doubts, he was "warmly institutionalized." At each stage of the war's escalation, he was invited to express his dissent. Concludes...
Reactionary or not, B.S.&T. is a new kind of rock group. It is the first major group to be spawned on the East rather than the West Coast. Five of the nine members (ages: 21 to 26) are native New Yorkers, and all nine, Katz points out, "have spent some time playing in bands around town or scuffling in Greenwich Village." The pace and aggression of the city flash through their tensile, hard-edged sound. With its five-man horn section, the group is also the most successful attempt yet to combine jazz-flavored brass and reeds with rock...
...birth control in special hardship cases, but refused otherwise to raise the lowly status of women in the Islamic world. Moslem husbands may still divest themselves of an unwanted wife by simply repeating "I divorce thee" three times. The conference also took a surprisingly moderate stand on the Middle East. It refused to consider the demand of the El Fatah guerrillas for a jihad (holy war) against Israel - and pointedly explained that the word jihad also meant sacrificing one's self for the good of mankind...