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While raising many practical and legal questions, the postal strike also underscores the helplessness of government in the face of organized, even if nonviolent, lawlessness. It also points up the growing tendency on the part of individuals and special interests to press their demands despite the havoc wrought on the community, and demonstrates the deterioration of discipline that has become a major challenge to U.S. society in recent years. In spite of state and local laws forbidding such actions, strikes by public employees have spread like an epidemic throughout the nation. The Government's effectiveness?or lack of it?...
...thrusting Nigerian advance created havoc. Biafran civilians piled pots, pans, clothing, radios and washtubs atop their heads and fled before the federal troops. One priest who flew out shortly afterward saw evacuees from a Biafran hospital hobbling down a road with intravenous needles still stuck in their arms and glucose bottles held aloft so the fluid could drip down. "The roads were choked with people," another priest recalled. "I could see terror in their faces." The exodus reminded him of an Ibo proverb: "A man who is running for his life never gets tired." But some did; they sat down...
...gain the support of a majority of the new council, and he is a man sensitive to the way the political wind is blowing in the City. For the first time since 1963, then, the council elections may not presage the firing of a city manager. Considering the havoc the successive city manager fights brought to City government, that would be no small blessing...
Indian history is notoriously full of broken covenants, callous horse soldiers and greedy land-grabbers-all encouraged from Washington. Though Vine Deloria dwells on such things with savage wit in this remarkable book, he is more bitterly concerned with the recent past and the havoc worked among the long-suffering tribes in the past 20 years by less officially baneful agencies-compassionate missionaries, humane anthropologists and liberal bureaucrats. Their doings, says Deloria, justifiably provoked a Sioux leader to tell a congressional hearing that what the Indians really want is "a leave-us-alone...
Torrents of Rain. Killer Camille wreaked her greatest havoc where first she struck: the southern coast from Mobile to south of New Orleans. She slowed down as she sliced up through Mississippi and Tennessee, then unexpectedly exploded into torrents of rain that sluiced through mountain gorges in West Virginia and Virginia before finally swirling out into the Atlantic...