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...more than 400 years, the Moslems in the southern Philippines, who now number about 2.5 million, have resisted attempts by the country's predominantly Christian administration to govern them. In recent years they have violently opposed Manila's policy of encouraging Christian settlers to migrate south and buy Moslem land. It was in part to end this violence that Marcos imposed martial law. At that time he demanded that all citizens turn in their guns to the government. Many Moslems balked and called for creation of an independent Moslem state. They took to the hills, where they seemingly...
...earlier broad attacks on Beethoven and Schubert were more clearly directed at the music itself. The criticism goes beyond the notion that the class and status of a composer affects the music he writes. Social conditions obviously govern any artist's work, but in instrumental music it isn't always' clear that the finished product conveys any more than abstract emotion to the listener. Music is the purest form of art. When the writers of the late 19th century Aesthetic movement wished to avoid the moral questions posed by their own art they tried to imitate the social indifference...
...this and succeeding years, the fund is expected to reach $50 million by 1976. That would mean $25 million for each major-party candidate&-far less than the $60.2 million lavished on Richard Nixon's 1972 campaign or even the $36 million put out for Mc-Govern-but a reasonable start on waging independent campaigns...
Astonishingly, the real Goldwater statement had been on network television for all to see. On NBC'S Meet the Press, Inquisitor Lawrence Spivak asked Goldwater how Nixon could govern effectively in view of his low standing in opinion polls. Replied Goldwater: "I remember when Harry Truman sank to about the same level of public opinion and credibility, and today I think he is probably the best President we have had in this century." In almost the same breath Goldwater added, "So I don't just take the fact that he has been down in the polls to mean...
...Committee on Graduate Education is beginning a series of meetings tomorrow to review and revise rules that govern teaching fellows and to begin discussion on what McKinney called a "fundamental change in philosophy" about teaching fellows...