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...king had made the coup with the generals, there was enough inertia in our confrontation, this huge confrontation, that there would have been massive confrontation and very bloody confrontation. I think we would really have swept the thing out. The target was clear-the junta. The establishment really prevented the people from expressing their views and exercising their constitutional prerogative over a number of years, but had built the right kind of spirit for fight. In one demonstration alone, we had one million Athenians. I mean, Athens was full. We have pictures of this, not one, but composite pictures. From...
...legislation. Laws are severely overdue to control, for example, the unregulated building boom that threatens to turn much of Italy into a concrete wilderness. "There is not the slightest evidence of conscience or concern for the future," complains Conservationist Antonio Cederna. "Every protest suffocates against the mattress of political inertia." A spokesman for the powerful Farmers Union warns that unchecked water pollution has cut the production of fodder by 60% and increased mortality among cattle. Though industry is hardly the sole culprit in polluting Italy's waterways, he says, "it is necessary that certain industries stop acting like...
...alone in an uptown pad furnished with a mattress and a radio. "He got hung up on taking in weird people?runaway teen-agers and people like that." Taylor was also getting heavily into drugs, especially heroin. Zach Wiesner had quit the Flying Machine after three months. Partly from inertia and partly out of loyalty to Kootch, James hung on for a year and a half. Then he escaped?not to the structure of McLean or the tranquillity of Martha's Vineyard but to swinging London...
...Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson, who wrote the cover story with the assistance of Contributing Editor James Simon and Researcher Erika Sanchez. "It seems more shocking and irrational in 1971 than ever before that these conditions can exist," says Shnayerson. "But the problems are enormous - the bureaucracy, the inertia of the administrators, the high cost of change. I feel more pessimistic than I expected to feel...
Unhappily, all this seems remote. Only a fraction of 1% of the nation's entire crime-control budget is even spent on research. Beyond that, the system is mired in bureaucratic inertia and fiddle-faddle. Many exciting ideas are never institutionalized, the same problem that impedes school reform. In 1965, Psychologist J. Douglas Grant and his wife put 18 hardened California inmates (half of them armed robbers) to work studying how to salvage their peers. They blossomed into impressive researchers, skilled at statistics, interviews, proposal writing and the rest. Today, 13 of Grant's men are doing the same work...