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...still something of a pipedream. But as New York City's problems multiply, its residents increasingly resent the spectacle of their elected officials pleading with smalltown legislators for permission to change the shift schedules of city patrolmen, retain rent control or decentralize schools. Albany's death grip over how the city raises and spends its own money is an even more serious matter. Thus the merits of independence cannot be airily dismissed. Lindsay's appointment of a commission to study statehood is not really as "childish" as Governor Nelson Rockefeller suggests...
...will take years and perhaps decades to bring back all of Quang Nam's refugees. Even then, one wonders about the people. Squatting in their refugee camps with little gainful employment, thrown into an urban environment they can hardly understand or cope with, many have lost their grip on their traditions and values. The land will mend, but what of the social fabric? In some places it is already tattered beyond repair, and the longer those millions of refugees stay cooped up in their tin sheds, the more the fabric will unravel...
...police, Today, the Thieu-Ky-Khiem regime has 97,000 policemen, Current American projections call for a Saigon police force of 147,000, with 120,000 cited as the goal for the end of 1972. Clearly, at least some American advisers foresee the continuation of the reactionary clique's grip over the country extending into 1973 and beyond...
...many ways, it has become a city of the dead. A month after the army struck, unleashing tank guns and automatic weapons against largely unarmed civilians in 34 hours of wanton slaughter, Dacca is still shocked and shuttered, its remaining inhabitants living in terror under the grip of army control. The exact toll will never be known, but probably more than 10,000 were killed in Dacca alone...
Reign of Terror. The son of an impoverished Port-au-Prince schoolteacher, Duvalier studied at the University of Haiti medical school. A member of a U.S.-sponsored medical team in the Haitian interior during the 1940s, he became aware of the grip that voodoo holds on the rural masses. After turning to politics, he was elected President of Haiti in 1957, with the army's backing. He had promised that he would do something for the country's poor black majority, who for years have been exploited by a small clique of mulattoes. Instead, Duvalier, who was very...