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Those thoughts are enshrined in the Green Book, a three-volume work of revolutionary philosophy penned by Gaddafi. Cryptic excerpts are plastered all over Tripoli. "Representation is a falsification of democracy ... In need, freedom is latent . .. The party system aborts democracy." In the airport, the traveler is inundated with illuminated signs in Arabic and English that read: NO DEMOCRACY WITHOUT POPULAR CONGRESS. Portraits of Gaddafi are everywhere, in private homes, musty old hotels, on billboards in service stations. Pointedly, there are also anti-American posters depicting Libyans shoving a spear through the head of a bleeding pig clothed in Uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libya: Heeling to Brother Gaddafi | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

...revenues available to a municipality cannot support a police force that is an adequate bulwark against crime, and voluntary help from the citizenry is needed, there should be extensive development of police auxiliaries. If there is a latent army of those who have suffered injustice, the source of the injustice should be directly addressed before the latent army becomes an active menace...

Author: By Martin B. Schwimmer, | Title: Guarding Against the Angels | 10/9/1981 | See Source »

...descendants of the Brown Shirts, but only faith and not the facts justify such optimism. The Angels must rigidly be held accountable to the local government and their actions should not be given the benefit of the doubt. It's easy to be paranoid about the latent fascism behind trained citizen patrol groups, but it is better to be paranoid than wrong...

Author: By Martin B. Schwimmer, | Title: Guarding Against the Angels | 10/9/1981 | See Source »

...though, attention is focused on current troubles rather than on latent-and later-possibilities. Millions of families cannot afford loans for new homes or automobiles. Thousands of small businesses are going bankrupt. Says Dwayne Walls, 49, a home remodeler in Chapel Hill, N.C., who is stuck with ten unsold houses because of towering mortgage rates: "I really don't see any end to 20% money. The bankers just keep telling me to hang on, but I'm just one little itty-bitty speck in this whole thing. I don't understand what's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making It Work | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

Brecht never underestimated the latent power of masochism. One can only kick a stone so many times before one breaks one's toe. Shlink, a wily masochist, turns over his lumber plant to Garga and thus entraps him. Garga must now buy and sell not only lumber but human beings. Shlink and Garga exchange fortunes, trying to out-toy fate. Unfortunately, Director David Jones understresses the Rimbaud-Verlaine love-hate homosexual bond, which is at the core of the drama. At play's end Shlink takes his own life with a vial of poison, and Garga moves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Swamp Rats | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

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