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...South Korea planned to present Japan with an even larger shopping list for new loans. In turn, Japan depended on consultations with Seoul to protect its large investments. The South Koreans were embarrassed by Japan's action, which in its way was sweet revenge for Kim, a longstanding foe of Park. But that was small consolation: he is being retained in Seoul under house arrest...
...earlier strutting one. Isolationism is no longer a dirty word, as it was two decades ago, though it is not yet an altogether respectable one. John Kennedy's stirring inaugural pledge: "We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty," seems to belong to another world...
What is the actual state of the American press? Is it in fact the foe of privilege and entrenched power that it claims to be? A closer look at Watergate belies that claim. Despite recent implications to the contrary, hundreds of probing, aggressive newsmen working night and day to unearth the truth was not the story of Watergate. More accurately, two reporters--Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post--kept up through last winter the pressure which eventually helped blow the case wide open. The rest of the press did not get involved until Nixon was already reeling...
...myths that taught us virtue; we judge them barbaric. We resist the bloody legalities of the Redemption; we face Judgment Day, in our hearts, much as young radicals face the mundane courts-convinced that acquittal is the one just verdict. We judge our Judge . . . incidentally reducing his 'ancient foe' to the dimensions of a bad comic strip...
...radical is "psychic guerrilla warfare"--non-violent confrontation politics, waged with "unfailing good humor, psychological analysis, and the flower power of the hippie." Beginning with a core of academics and intellectuals, the movement will win over blue collar workers, small businessmen and farmers, and eventually the New Right, another foe of the corporate giants...