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...nation may well be poised on a fateful fulcrum that will either tip predominant sentiment toward a new faith in its fundamental institutions???including Congress, the Constitution and the courts?or send it into a trough of public despair and anomie. The direction will depend to a large degree upon how many members of Congress, Government
...power on earth brought all of its technology?all but the doomsday bombs?to bear on a peasant nation slightly larger than Florida. The smallest war, 9,000 miles from San Diego, became a national obsession that capsized a consensus President and undermined some of the most crucial American institutions???the military, the universities and, more broadly, the framework of authority itself, the sheer believability of Government...
...affair of the Pentagon papers went into its second incredible week, antiwar partisans seemed to be manipulating basic U.S. institutions???the press, Government, and even, in a sense, the courts?to stage-manage a dramatic presentation of their views far beyond the wildest dreams of the most zealous campus radicals. It was surely the slickest counter-Establishment insurgency of recent times. The climax was the sudden appearance on national television of the man who started it all. There was Daniel Ellsberg, once the gifted and aggressive war planner, speaking softly but leveling the harsh charge that Americans bear the major...
...land and into the cities of the North, West and, increasingly, of the South itself. There have been vast changes in where Southerners live, how they live, and the ways in which they must share that life with the region's blacks. The South's social and political institutions???and the convoluted psychology that was their mooring?are in the process being shaken into fresh alignments and priorities...
...reached into the black community. Atlanta has had a large black middle class for several generations. Centered on the five colleges and theological institute of Atlanta University Center, these blacks have long controlled their own economic and political life. Shut off from white financial channels, they developed alternative economic institutions???banks, insurance companies, small businesses...