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...front of General Motors' fortress-like headquarters building in Detroit last week, antiwar picketers waved banners reading G.M. GETS RICH, G.I.s DIE. Why did they pick on G.M.? Last year it received only 3% of its $24.45 billion revenues from defense contracts, largely for M16 rifles. But, as the prime symbol of corporate success in modern America, G.M. is a conspicuous target. This year it is under rising pressure not only from citizens objecting to the Viet Nam War and pollution of the environment, but also from the Government and competing automakers...
...Medici writes of his visit to Cuba; "The spectre of forced labor camps is gathering over millions of Cubans. These camps were established in late 1965 and now have some 80.000 persons . . . in addition to these, some 50.000 political prisoners lie in jails such as the ignominious Le Cabana fortress (dungeons from Spanish colonial times in Havana). The International Red Cross has been denied time and time again access to these political prisons." Di Medici continues: "George Orwell's 1984 with its fantasy about Big Brother is a reality in today's Cuba." In every city there exists a Committee...
...Anarchy. After his victory, the dapper Arana drove from his fortress-like home, usually guarded by 20 tough gunmen, to his National Liberation Movement headquarters in his ancient armor-plated, black-windowed limousine. The car was formerly owned by Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza, who was assassinated in 1956; its floor was stacked with submachine guns. To his followers, who were celebrating with marimba music and firecrackers, Arana pledged that when he takes over on July 1 from Méndez Montenegro* he would "put an end to the anarchy in which we have been living...
Instead of A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, people sing "One mighty Family, A single noble race,/Sending its sons and daughters/Bravely into Space ..." The common obscenity is "fight," as in "fight you" or "you brother-fighter." On less vehement occasions the universal expression is "Christ, Marx, Wood and Wei," the four deities of the drugged society. Christ and Marx, O.K. Wei is a mischief-making Oriental seer who appears in the book. But who's Wood? The author has hinted that he made Wood up. But could it possibly be Speed-Reading Guru Evelyn Wood, who has, after...
Soothsayer's Warning. In the two weeks since the riots, Marcos-the Philippines' most decorated war hero-has holed up in Malacanang as if it were the Alamo. The charming old Spanish colonial palace has become a fortress. Workmen have welded closed two of its four massive entrance gates. Armed guards patrol the Pasig riverfront; soldiers in combat dress and plainclothesmen, guns bulging under their loose-fitting barong tagalog shirts, are all over the Malacanang's banyan-shaded grounds...