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...violence in Tripura has driven 243,000 into refugee camps. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's government is sending 5,000 tons of rice, but no one knows how to solve the basic problem of resettlement. Some Indians would like to try to ease the tensions by deporting immigrants who arrived after 1971. The cruel question: Where can they...
...Parking Lot before the action began Saturday, we chuckled over William Loeb's propaganda in the Manchester Union Leader in which he denounced the protestors as violent anarchists. Anarchists maybe, but didn't the whole anti-nuke movement spring from civil disobedience and peaceful resistance in the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King? Of course...
This is one case where slightly different meanings make a world of difference. Non-violent direct action is boltcutters and gas masks to CDAS. To Sharp, as to Mahatma Gandhi, it means total non-violence with a willingness to suffer. No masks of helmets, no running away when the police come for you: bodies, not boltcutters. It is not a very visible line, but it's easier to draw than it seems. The farther away from personal involvement--literal personal involvement--the less effective...
...violent civil disobedience of Thoreau, Gandhi and King has a sacred aura in this book, and it is vin dicated by its political and spiritual triumphs. But when the affluent college students of the '60s seize the revelations of the civil rights movement, the drama and courage of the protest, the transcendent irreverence of the beat generation, Viorst sees pretension; there is validity to the rancor, but will anyone...
...times, Mazlish and Diamond descend from the simplistic into the banal. In various parts of the book, the authors compare Carter to DeGaulle, Gandhi, the young Luther (a la Erik Erikson) Oliver Cromwell and Handsome Lake, a Seneca Indian who had a series of revelations that led to his belief in his own leadership. Where other presidents are heroes or policy-makers, Carter belongs in the ranks of "revitalizers." Bear with the authors' dangling prose...