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Given the present state of our knowledge, it borders on the immoral for responsible observers to express anything resembling a sympathetic and tolerant attitude toward the kind of violent outbreak that occurred during the blackout. Along with Dante, I am inclined to believe that people who sympathize with the wrong aspects of a problem, even with the best intentions, have earned extraordinary punishment in a specialized corner of hell...
When he took charge of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express empire in June, a wealthy English businessman named Victor Matthews said that his only injunctions to his staff were that they believe in Britain and seek to publish good news. These two demands he thought so commonsensical that he anticipated no trouble. Matthews may be competent at running the Cunard Line and London's Ritz Hotel-two of his company's many properties-but he just doesn't understand reporters and editors. They may believe in their country but recoil at the suggestion that they...
...when they are reasonably well fed?to induce the parent to bring more food. Dogs withhold tail-wagging to get more food. Children withhold or provide smiles?as a means of reinforcing maternal behavior they need. Says Trivers: "Strong selection pressures tend to favor the infant's efforts to express its own self-interest. Once you explore the stratagems of parent and child, I think you can see that the child is not just an empty vessel to be filled by the parents but a sophisticated organism capable of acting in its own self-interests from early...
...headline from the Los Angeles Times: CITY'S PRIDE IN ITSELF GOES DIM IN THE BLACKOUT. Newspapers abroad also focused on the looting. A headline from Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun: PANIC GRIPS NEW YORK; from West Germany's Bild Zeitung: NEW YORK'S BLOODIEST NIGHT; from London's Daily Express: THE NAKED CITY...
...just escaped from two months of "house arrest" by cult members. Meisner told the FBI that he had supervised a whole program of covert operations against several Government agencies during 1975-76. Scientologists had planted the arrested IRS employee and a Justice Department secretary in their jobs for the express purpose of stealing documents concerning investigations of Scientology, Meisner said. Church operatives had even broken into IRS headquarters and planted a bug in a conference room. Repeated pilferings of the files of an assistant U.S. Attorney's office in the federal courthouse produced hundreds of pages on Government strategy...