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...even if not supported by the great mass of people, understand history and the political conditions necessary for social progress with a true consciousness the majority has not yet attained. This historical argument is rarely made seriously unless a terrorist group has mass support. Its logical extension is Rosa Luxembourg's definition of revolution--a string of failures that ends with a final success. In other words, if terror works--if it forces a ruling class to meet the demands of terrorists--that success validates and justifies the terror. If the terror fails, the terrorists usually die and the problem...
...past 15 months, there has been a change of leaders in all but one of the nine nations of the European Common Market; the lone survivor is Pierre Werner of Luxembourg. It is a matter of debate as to how Moscow reads the auguries. Surely the West's weakness at the top cannot be welcome to Soviet Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev, who has staked his hopes for detente largely on his personal dealings with Nixon, the departed Brandt and the late French President Georges Pompidou...
...mark, in fact, is no longer an ordinary currency; it has become the de facto leader of a whole block of currencies issued by countries that make up an unofficial "Deutsche Mark zone." Include the Dutch guilder, the Belgian franc, the Luxembourg franc, the Danish, Swedish and Norwegian kroner, the Swiss franc and the Austrian schilling. They tend to rise and fall with the mark, so the mark's strength has pushed the value of the dollar down against all of them...
Pompidou's death will plunge Europe into a lengthy period of paralysis. The tragic news from the Elysee reached a meeting of Common Market foreign ministers in Luxembourg just one day after British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan had finished making the new Labor government's case for a "fundamental renegotiation" of the terms of Britain's EEC membership-meaning its determination to work out a better economic deal. Callaghan had reckoned that the negotiations might be strung out for a year, leaving the Labor government ample time before it must pay off on its most controversial campaign...
...middle of this season, the problem of bench strength became acute. Felix Adedeji became injured, Bent Hinze and Dragan Vujovic returned to Europe last year, Jean-Pierre Gilbert of Luxembourg quit after the Penn game, and Crimson head coach Bruce Munro could find very few healthy and talented bodies to fill...