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...city's leaders have also remained curiously silent about another aspect of the beating--one attacker's use of an American flag as a weapon in their assault on Landsmark. If the flag is a symbol of America, their silence on this issue will only lend support to a particularly offensive form of desecration...
...left. But isolationism had no mass constituency among leftists until the Communist Party discovered its historical legitimacy following the Hitler-Stalin Pact. And this abrupt reversal of position by the C.P., so abrupt that it caused a substantial number of defections from the party, was too short-lived to lend itself to consideration as part of a tradition of isolationism among American radicals. As soon as German troops invaded the Soviet Union, in June of 1941, isolationism lost its mass following on the Left, and all that was left was a small group of intellectuals who, for the most part...
...life. Most generals are veterans of the Spanish Civil War. Staunch Franquistas, they want to maintain the boot-clicking discipline of the old regime and may well demand severely repressive measures if social disorder continues. Many of the junior officers have basically been apolitical-docile career men satisfied to lend nominal support to the status quo. But some are beginning to question that function. One reason: low salaries have forced many to moonlight in second jobs, and they sympathize with underpaid civilians...
...Wesker has unwittingly blown the cover on his melodramatic portrayal of working-class life. It was a nearly flawless imitation, yet no more human than that electronic melody. Wesker found himself with puppets on his hands, and he had to invent an improbable murder scene at the end to lend some dramatic force to his paper-thin characters...
...Governor has offended almost every organization that could lend him support. The Illinois Education Association, angry at Walker for vetoing education bills, is backing Hewlett. The United Auto Workers are against the Governor because the state took an unconscionably long time to distribute unemployment checks. The Illinois State Employees Association supports Howlett, charging that Walker is "creating a shambles of orderly government...