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...another painful, but probably unproductive debate over financing graduate education. The Union will probably be here. The remaining share of federal funds may even be here. Administrators are eternally here. And the problems of priorities and power which necessitated the Kraus plan and then turned it into a powder keg will undoubtedly be here to loom over the entire community as soon as the Kraus plan comes up for revision...
WOUNDED KNEE, S.D.--The seizure of Wounded Knee 17 days ago by members of the American Indian Movement finally brought a smouldering powder keg close to its explosion point. Since AIM was founded in Minneapolis, Minn. in 1968, its increasingly activist message pointed inevitably to a militant...
...nationalism to their own account, in hopes of bringing Yugoslavia back under Moscow's control after Tito passes from the scene. But for the short run, the Soviets could well have a different aim in mind: to prevent the Croats from striking too many sparks in the Balkan powder keg, thus endangering progress toward detente in Europe...
...Balkans are still the powder keg of Europe, Macedonia may well be the fuse. The issue that could provide the spark is a century-old controversy over whether the Macedonians are a distinct strain of southern Slavs entitled to an autonomous republic within Yugoslavia, or whether they are Bulgars and should be part of Bulgaria. Bulgaria pressed its claim that the Macedonians are really Bulgars until last year, when Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev visited Sofia. After that, the Bulgarians suddenly softened their propaganda attacks against Yugoslavia over the issue...
...first rush he realizes that it's his car with the keg attached to it, so he comes out with his hands up with that funny finy voice of his saying, 'Don't shoot, coppers! Don't shoot, coppers! It's all my doing. I led everybody into it. Put me away. I done...