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...guns seemed rather belated in a country whose inhabitants have more weapons than the entire Philippine military and police forces. During a tour of Manila last week, TIME Correspondent Robert Elson saw few soldiers and found life "normal except for the companies of ROTC students scrubbing anti-Marcos graffiti off the walls of buildings and traffic dividers. Otherwise, the city went untroubled about its business. Open-air shops were thronged, and early-morning Masses were crowded...
...Didouche Mourad, Algiers' principal thoroughfare. One diplomat described them as "hooligans in the making" and suggested that the government ought to be worried. So far there are no signs of incipient revolt, and Correspondent Scott found the atmosphere in Algiers one of phlegmatic indolence rather than seething resentment. Graffiti are rare in a secret-police state, but on one lamppost, he noted, had been scribbled the lament "Triste Algerie...
...noted physicist wanted to teach heretical theories about the origins of Shakespeare's plays, but the racist implications of Shockley's views have aroused fierce protests (as have the similar but more scholarly views of Psychologists Richard Herrnstein at Harvard and Arthur Jensen at Berkeley). Graffiti on Stanford walls have urged, "Sterilize Shockley." He has been burned in effigy. On two occasions his classes were broken up by hostile students, some flaunting the sheets of the Ku Klux Klan...
Temporal Justice. There are still some pockets of resistance within the church. In traditionally pious Andalusia, some peasants still literally kiss the hems of priests' cassocks. In Madrid, a group of ultrarightists who call themselves "Warriors for Jesus Christ" have smeared graffiti on the facade of one of the city's most liberal churches. But by far the most serious opposition has come from conservatives within the government itself. In his New Year's address, Franco threatened to take action against the church if it interfered in temporal affairs. A few days later, Spain's Undersecretary...
...Spearmint furiously rejects the criticism as an attack on black art. When Lesser says that he and Irene have fallen in love, Spearmint assaults a flaking wall with his head and moans, "I forgot to go on hating you." Later he burns Lesser's unfinished manuscript and writes graffiti with its ashes...