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...civilians have been debated as heatedly as any of the basic tenets of the war. U.S. officials maintain that most of the problem in Viet Nam was created by the Jet offensive of 1968 and other Viet Cong harassment of innocent villagers. U.S. antiwar groups insist with equal fervor that the problem has been created solely by American policies and bombs. Both sides in the bitter struggle have played a role in turning a proud, independent rural people into a displaced urban population, and the process is far from over...
...revolutionary fervor. Miss Luscomb lacks the sense of frustration that impels many of her younger colleagues to violence. She decries the recent tactic of Boston feminists, who took over a Harvard building tor rap sessions and judo lessons. "If they have a right to take over a Harvard building for their cause," she says, "then so do the John Birchers...
...many blows to the aerospace industry. The industry's biggest customer, the Defense Department, has cut back considerably on its orders for military planes and missiles. Following the course of the nation's disengagement from Viet Nam, defense funds have been pared for two straight years. The decreasing fervor for space feats has also hurt. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration this year has a budget of $3 billion, or a little more than half as much as three years...
Polls conducted by Soviet sociologists show a surprisingly low degree of ideological fervor among the educated young. When 2,204 graduate students in Leningrad were asked "What are your desires for the near future?", 60.6% replied that they wanted interesting jobs, while only 18.4% chose the good Communist option of wanting to participate in the construction of a new industrial complex. In a sampling of workers attending political study groups in the Estonian capital of Tallin, less than 1% said they were interested in learning about the philosophy of Communism...
...predicted Muhammad Ali three years ago, after the World Boxing Association, in a fit of moral fervor, stripped him of his heavyweight title because he had been convicted of draft evasion. Ali's prophecy was at least half right. Never more than a scene-stealing shout away from ringside, keeping in the headlines with a flurry of lectures and boasts, the champ-in-exile did indeed haunt the sport. He was a titleholder stripped of his rights?not by the fists of another fighter but by decree of a pretentious body of boxing executives...