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This movement, the Democratic Military Union (UMD), apparently contains 400 to 1000 officers, a small fraction of the 40,000-man officer corps, but their strategic importance and widespread influence is disproportionate to their numbers. The government became aware of the UMD as an association of study groups this fall and met the threat with arrests, enlarging the organization's grievances and expanding its appeal. The UMD is not nearly so radical as the Armed Forces Movement in Portugal, which sprang from lower-ranking officers. But the group's partisans insist on the dismantling of the Franco state and social...
...cameras get rolling. Charisma, which is his excuse, is based on double takes and spiraling eyes and the ticks and flutters that make a face interesting, as long as the role doesn't demand any grey matter behind it. But Charles Bronson-his features wouldn't twitter a fraction if he were hit by a truck, yet he dominates this picture like the best of them...
Furthermore, Wilson said, only a tiny fraction of reported crimes, 2 or 3 per cent, lead to jail or prison terms for the offender, the major reason being that few are apprehended. But another reason is that of those convicted so few are sent to jail. GOAL reports that only 21 persons go to prison for every 100 murders, only 7.1 persons for every 100 rapes, and only 5 persons for every 100 robberies. "If much or most serious crime is committed by repeaters," Wilson writes in his latest book Thinking About Crime, "separating repeaters from the rest of society...
...Betty greeted her husband with a bear hug, and his sons affectionately draped their arms around his shoulders. The President's reaction to his day was casual and characteristic: "Gee, it's nice to be home." Then he said: "We had a great trip−just a fraction of a second or two kind of distorted things. Everything else was superb." Indeed, Ford went out of his way to reassure Californians that he did not hold the Fromme episode against them. "I wouldn't under any circumstances let one individual's effort undercut the warmth...
...office in 1968 he saw about 1.5 million people in rallies and along parade streets. When that figure is modified to allow for children and nonvoters, it is a good bet that any candidate or President can come into the real line of sight of only a tiny fraction of the voters...