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AFTER unpacking, the village vacationers hurry to sign up for riding, tennis, sailing, swimming, fencing, judo, calisthenics, yoga. For the less ambitious there is volleyball, table tennis, bowls, pitching horseshoes or just walking in the woods. Europeans are becoming as serious about le sport as Americans, partly because of what the French call le standing, or status. There is exercise for the mind as well as the muscles. The library is handily placed next to the bar. Every evening there are taped concerts of jazz classics or chamber music, and a pretty Parisienne lectures on painting. Tired tennis players...
...other "vulnerable carriers," including the oft-plagued TWA, are escorted to and from runways by official vehicles. The aircraft are frequently parked on remote aprons to reduce airport damage in case of explosion. Security guards ride aboard some Swissair and Olympic flights, and El Al has judo-trained guards armed with Beretta pistols on every flight. Airports almost everywhere in Europe have stepped up surveillance in passenger terminals. Last week Swiss inspectors uncovered a shipment of 47 Czechoslovak-made submachine guns in the baggage aboard a Beirut-bound Swissair plane and arrested two Arab suspects. But authorities despair of ever...
Evidently, the Journal is to serve as a manifesto and handbook for potential women liberators. Its opening editorial tells, step-by-step, what action a woman must take to liberate herself. Among these steps are: meet regularly with a group of women for education and support: learn judo or karate; don't get married or have babies; live completely alone if possible or in a female commune), and finally, don't wear cosmetics or sexy clothes...
...Kwon Do is more useful than karate or judo for training women in self-defense, according to Mary G. Paget, Coordinator of Recreational Activities at Radeliffe. Unlike karate, which uses hand motions, and judo, which uses throws. Tae Kwon Do uses mostly kicking movements...
Unlike a revolutionary assault from the outside, Luttwak notes, a coup is an inside job, done by a government's own members. It involves minimal manpower and bloodshed. As in judo, the secret is to use leverage and make a state overthrow itself. Bureaucracy facilitates this by severing the loyalties that once personally bound rulers and their servants. A modern bureaucrat follows impersonal orders; if his immediate boss is subverted, the bureaucrat tends to obey orders blindly, even orders designed to topple his own government...