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...Powerful Instrument. Drawn, almost dazed, Trudeau described the execution as a "cowardly assassination" and called on Canadians to "stick together in this very sorry moment of our history." The Prime Minister's reaction to the murder is likely to be forceful, to put it mildly, and in the War Measures Act he has an immensely powerful instrument for applying pressure. Under the act, a large segment of the Canadian Bill of Rights is suspended for up to six months. Police and troops are empowered to make searches, seizures and arrests without warrants, and to hold suspects up to seven...
...publisher; he is well on the way to teaching English to ghetto kids. For all this, Kemp mainly credits City University's SEEK, program. "I probably would have written a book without it, but to be at Harvard? To teach later on? Never. For me, SEEK was the instrument for making...
...Poiltics have been an institutionalized form of violence and the political body, the instrument protecting those institutions; it is the body which represents an overt violence, becoming more and more the gun as the institutions themselves are stripped away. Because the institutions of American politics have been challenged in such a way as to force the protecting body to employ the use of nearly every gun at its disposal, anyone wishing to make a political statement against that body had best make it with a gun; the statement itself should be made with a gun, not merely backed...
...among the nation's 1,100,000 engineers had leaped to 29,000, from only 4,000 in 1969. Since May, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (A.I.A.A.) estimates, 16,000 advanced engineers and scientists have been laid off in aerospace alone. Layoffs in the ordnance and instrument industries, and at campus research labs doing military work, add to the trouble...
...STATUS of the suburban housewife, Slater is brilliant. When the society demands-and Dr. Spock declares-that the mother become the primary child-rearing instrument, her sexuality must be muted. The American housewife, Slater writes, has become thoroughly desexualized. In most societies, a woman does not become full-fledged sexual being until she is married. In America, the erotic standard is based upon mindless nymphets and (does the term betray the childlessness of our preoccupations?) glossy playmates...