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ROY LEE WARD Imperial Beach, Calif.
"The May Day incident is no longer a subject for jurists," said Tokyo University Professor Hideo Fujiki. "It's already one for the historians." Not quite. The incident occurred in 1952, when 6,000 demonstrators shouting "Yankee go home!" and demanding a new government clashed with 1,000 police...
Britain's precipitous decline from world-power status to that of a second-class nation rendered its alliance with the U.S. unbalanced-and unproductive. As Britain liquidated its imperial holdings, its diplomacy largely lost the ability to influence and aid U.S. policy. Britain's failure to win admission...
SALINITY. The Imperial Valley has perhaps the richest farm land in the nation, producing five or six bumper crops a year. The valley's intense irrigation, however, is raising the level of the water table to the bottom of the irrigation trenches. Salts are pulled to the surface ?and...
The second act is less powerful, largely because the portrait of peasant life becomes redundant. The clerk Azdak, Brecht's anti-hero- who survives on wit, predatory cunning, and cowardice when the occasion demands- becomes supreme judge of the land during the period of revolutionary chaos. He gleefully accepts bribes...