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...will be casualties of the military buildup. Although registration would undoubtedly be conducted in as low-key a fashion as possible, widespread resistance is likely to occur and our government will likely prosecute those who don't cooperate. Perhaps most dangerously, a registration will provide the Pentagon with a faceless pool of prospective inductees to be used in a largescale intervention overseas. A beefed-up standby draft system will expand our mobilization capability and make it easier to wage "quick-start" wars around the globe...
...this takes place in a faceless city where everything's for sale--the whole place has an air of colorful hopelessness, a Club Med in the ghetto. "You ought to be in pictures," says a Kodak ad. The lottery offers to make you a millionaire. And through all of this is wandering Collins. He does his business in porno lounges, movie theaters, used car lots--everything's for sale and it all has to be paid...
...Faceless men in black robes, judges speak a tongue that laymen find baffling. They are beholden only to higher judges, which means the Supreme Court is beholden to no one at all. Said blunt-spoken New Yorker Robert Jackson, a Supreme Court Justice in the Roosevelt and Truman years: "We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible because we are final...
Despite those problems, Boumedienne left Algeria a considerable legacy of pride and hope. Though he was not exactly charismatic-his first address to the nation after the 1965 coup came from a faceless voice on television while the camera focused on an empty lectern-he did become an aggressive international leader. He was among the first of the Arabs to nationalize precious natural resources. He acquired wide respect among nonaligned nations with his 1973 call for a new economic order, more equitably sharing the riches of the industrial nations with the Third World. That world, as well as Algeria, will...
Small, black and physically unimpressive, Ellelloū can roam his parched land in virtual anonymity, at least when he leaves his silver Mercedes. He is essentially and purposely a faceless character, an ineffectual ruler who cannot symbolize the absolute authority of the old king and does not have the pragmatic instincts of his successors. "Our President," says one, "rules by mystical dissociation of sensibility...