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...running for governor because I believe that if we are to survive and flourish in the 1980s and '90s, we must change the way our state government operates...
...years since the abolition of the draft in the early 1970s, the armed forces have been manned by poor people and racial minorities--there is no quarreling with that fact. In a society where unemployment is permitted--indeed encouraged--to flourish, the service has become an employer of last resort for those denied jobs elsewhere in our inhumane economy. In a sense, then, there is already a draft in our nation, a draft that passes over those with enough money, education or connections to do something else...
...fathers were killed by a Katyusha rocket in 1978 as they walked past a wall in the Manara kibbutz. There is a hole in the wall, like a bite mark, where they were hit. It is the only sign of destruction in Manara, where everything else seems to flourish. Red flowers glow in dark green bushes. Babies in colorful sun hats waddle in the playground where the cab of an old truck has been painted yellow and pink and made into a toy. The older children use the pool. From the water they may look down into a valley full...
...make a better washing machine; as veteran readers of science fiction might suspect, the devices become complex enough to experience mental illness, hire their own laundresses and attempt a takeover of the world. Even outer space is being ruined by man's ability to visit it. Graffiti flourish in the asteroid belt: IT WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT ON THIS HERE METEORITE...
Thus the people survive, indeed flourish, in spite of a vast gap between them and their ineffective governments. They survive in spite of a welfare system out of control, schools and social services in disarray, flagrant corruption and a bureaucracy so swollen and inept that it is mocked as lacci e laccioli, shackles and snares. A letter arrived two weeks ago at the home of one Giuseppe Baggio in Bassano Del Grappa. Baggio had mailed it to his mother from a military prison camp 37 years ago. Many Italians were surprised: the letter had actually arrived...