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...begin to look like sheep. One could detect the bleatings of the herd in a recent televised exchange between columnist Robert Novak and Congressman Joe Kennedy. Frustrated by the Congressman's failure to agree with him on a range of issues, Novak suddenly snapped, "Where's your American-flag lapel pin?" Never mind that young Kennedy has chosen to serve his nation on a full-time basis, he wasn't, in the conservative columnist's eyes, patriotically correct...
...additions, subtractions or alterations to official uniforms usually invite disciplinary action, except, apparently, in wartime. Late last month, the New York City police department overruled itself and decided that flag patches larger than a lapel pin but no bigger than 1.5 in. by 2 in. would not violate its strict standards. A Worcester, Mass., court officer fought for and won the right to wear a yellow ribbon below the breast badge on his uniform, unless a particular judge decides it might disrupt his courtroom. When a gate attendant at Miami's Opa-Locka Airport was told to remove her yellow...
Patriotism was everywhere. Tattoo parlors were overwhelmed with orders for eagles and Old Glory. In some cities, even the antiwar protesters sported American flag lapel pins next to their peace pins. Said Greg Wald, owner of the All Nations Flag Company in Kansas City: "The first week of the war was like Memorial Day and the Fourth of July combined. It hit like an earthquake." Consumer-watchdog groups, though, warned of con men already hatching heartless schemes. Swindlers in Hauppauge, N.Y., pretending to be cemetery employees, were urging veterans last week to buy graveyard plots before fresh war casualties filled...
...Bucharest sit-in has blocked traffic in one of the capital's main thoroughfares and led Iliescu to denounce the protesters as "vagabonds," a description for which he later apologized. Throughout the country, protesters took to wearing lapel badges inscribed I AM A VAGABOND and renewed their demands for Iliescu to step aside...
...success from turning into a full-blown crisis is the absence of effective competition. The Democrats as a party and the liberals as a secular sect are far more bereft of direction. It is impossible to imagine a liberal gathering where one champion would warrant two or three different lapel buttons, let alone the eleven bearing the likeness of Ollie North...