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...labor problems will not vanish unless and until the University starts treating union workers properly. Harvard has gotten rid of Paul Trudel and is trying to get rid of Sherman Holcombe, but there will always be others to take our places. The voices of workers on campus are getting louder. Some day all employees at Harvard will stand together united, regardless of which union we belong to, regardless of our race, sex, religion or nationality. It will be a day of reckoning for Harvard, because the University will have to recognize that democratic rights are not just for a privileged...
Artur roars louder...
Listen. The music here is louder than anything you will hear. It is made by machines: a clanging of metal on metal, the twanging of invisible red-hot wires, a shuffling of wood and sand, and maybe, just maybe, the sound of something human. A woman coos in a muted voice, as if she were speaking through bed sheets. A man wails deep; his anguish, supposedly lashed to a sexual moment, is only the synthetic spawn of the recording studio--artificial, abstract. A chorus of women chant undecipherable orisons to some street-wise goddess of love. Their voices are synchronized...
...Prime Minister Ian Smith got the message, he failed to heed it. Instead, the embattled Smith clung more tenaciously than ever to his minority government (273,000 whites v. 5.8 million blacks). Meanwhile, an economic noose was tightening around the breakaway British colony, and there were ever louder alarms of a debilitating racial war between black-and white-ruled regimes that could engulf southern Africa. The possibility that Rhodesia would become the cockpit of Africa's next violent conflict grew steadily stronger...
...disagreement over inflation leads to another debate that is muted now but will grow much louder during the election year: Where is the economy headed after 1976? No one would be satisfied permanently with the pattern of high (though declining) unemployment and inflation foreseen for next year. But Sprinkel and Weidenbaum see the year as a bridge to a long-term pattern of balanced, sustainable growth-if moderate fiscal and monetary policies are pursued until what they see as a promising start on wringing inflationary momentum out of the economy is carried through to conclusion. Sprinkel argues that it took...