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...walls of universities and factories in China's major cities, for the past month, have been plastered with posters denouncing a "foremost capitalist roader" in the party. From the start of the campaign, it has been apparent that the unnamed target was Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, who until recently had been regarded by Western Sinologists as the most plausible successor to the late Chou En-lai as the No. 2 man in China. Last week for the first time, posters in Peking, Shanghai and Tientsin denounced Teng by name. He thus joins a very select group...
...they have. Britain's foremost pop paper, Melody Maker, has named the Chieftains not just the folk group of 1975, but the Group of the Year - "for making unfashionable music fashionable." Actually, what the Chieftains play derives from music that has been fashionable in Ireland for centuries and comes as close as anything to being the classical music of Eire...
...clear that the actual policy of the Department of Athletics is not in any way "participation for all." Unless, of course, we take "all" to mean first and foremost all those who wish to compete at the intercollegiate level (and have the necessary ability), secondly all those who wish to compete at an organized intramural level, and leave to the bottom of the ladder all those who would like to be able to go for an occasional swim or play a pick-up game of basketball...
Israel is willing to make a "cosmetic" adjustment - unacceptable to Syria - of the present disengagement line but will not discuss a larger surrender of territory except in terms of an overall peace settlement. And Damascus, which remains the foremost Arab champion of the Palestinian cause, wants a voice for the P.L.O. at any peace proceedings...
...other part of the answer has to do with the philosophical/political beliefs of a man denied admissions to Harvard because of his blackness: Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, who became the foremost defender of Black academia at the turn of this century. Dr. DuBois contended that for the most intellectually talented Black youth, no obstacles should be permitted to arise in the pursuit of educational fulfillment. And decades later, after thousands of lynchings, sit-ins, marches, and prayer meetings, it is no less true that knowledge is most powerful tool in the hands of an oppressed people: "knowledge of the self...