Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There does not seem much left to sacrifice. As it is now constituted, the Post Office is the Government's basket case. There is a 23% average turnover in personnel every year; 85% of all employees are in the five lowest pay grades. Operations are guided by a vast hodgepodge of rules and regulations that fill a 9½lb. volume. The accumulated need for facilities and equipment exceeds $5 billion; yet the proposed construction of any major postal facility usually takes eight to ten years to win congressional approval...
...incident did, however, point up the fact that there has been no U.S. ambassador in Bonn since Henry Cabot Lodge left in January. President Nixon has looked hard for a replacement, and has been turned down by at least three candidates. The situation in Bonn underscores the new Administration's difficulty in filling even the most prized ambassadorial posts. At week's end, it was reported that Nixon had finally found a man for Bonn. But even so, 18 ambassadorships remain vacant. And Nixon has retained about 60 holdovers, including the significantly high number of 18 political appointees...
GUNTER GRASS believes in democracy. He disapproves of the German students on the Far Left as much as he does those on the neo-Nazi right, because both are trying to destroy Germany's democracy rather than strengthen it. In the series of speeches, open letters, and articles translated in Speak Out!, Grass presents his vision of what the German state should be, and his criticisms of West Germany...
...evaluates Grass's viewpoint depends on one's interpretation of German history. The way he upholds democracy and criticizes the German Far Left can't be judged by American standards. Some of those opposed to Grass would say that it is foolish to believe that democracy will work in Germany now when it has failed miserably every time in the past. But Grass's answer is that German democracy has failed in the past because the German people left politics up to the politicians, were willing to give the Chancellor too much power, were not really interested in their democracy...
...this world of literary abundance, it is surprising to think that any man who has ever written anything would be left out. It is more than surprising to hear that a scholar who has studied natural science at the University of Edinburgh; history, law, and medicine in Moscow; biology in Berlin; and psychoanalysis in Vienna would have his many works excluded...