Word: hi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haney Howell who, while covering the same demonstration an hour later, was knocked to the ground and kicked by several policemen; he was hospitalized with painful bruises about his spleen. CBS protested directly to President Thieu, noting that the attack did violence to the already fragile image of democracy hi his country. To Hillenbrand, the ugly episode was a telling sign of political jitters hi Saigon. As always, he says, "when the going gets tough for the government, the secret police begin beating on the journalists...
...coffee table before him. Scattered at his feet are books that he has had little time for recently: Thomas Merton on Zen, Arnold Toynbee on the future, Idries Shah on Sufi parables. As the twilight fades, the soothing voice of Judy Collins drifts through the room from the hi-fi in the corner: " 'Cause she's touched your perfect body with her mind...
Pushing Money. As he campaigns from campuses in Northern California to the urban sprawl of Southern California, Jerry Brown exemplifies a great number of the trends that are so evident hi 1974. He vigorously condemns Republicans and Republicanism, which, he claims, is "a philosophy of favoritism for the few and sacrifice for the many." But Brown is no ideologue, and often he adopts traditional conservative positions...
...deplores "the kind of '60s liberalism that involves pushing money after every problem." In education, he is against permissive systems that "teach kids algebra hi the third grade and remedial reading in the twelfth grade." On law and order: "Let's get back to the old-fashioned idea that an individual is responsible for his actions." On drugs: "If people want to get high, they should turn to meditation...
Despite his frank reservations about the efficacy of government, Brown remains an optimist and a reformer who says of his undoctrinaire political philosophy: "I'm convinced that activism hi government, credible action, is the answer. That doesn't mean liberal activism. It means simply getting done for people what they need to have done...