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...moment, no group represents everyone who supports a democratic, non-militarist and non-expansionist University. But unity can be achieved. The strike steering committee set up by students who initially supported SDS's six demands was designed to be expanded, and the six demands can be added to and clarified. Students who find themselves for the most part in agreement with this group's demands should, as the strike proceeds, attend and participate in the meetings of the radical strike group. These are not SDS meetings, but simply meetings of people who support the radical demands...
...counter the widespread fear that he is a hard-line militarist who is increasing the risk of war, Reagan sounded a line he will repeat frequently: because his military buildup has strengthened the nation, "we can now move with confidence to seize the opportunities for peace." He adroitly addressed an appeal for renewal of arms-control negotiations "to the people of the Soviet Union," telling them "there is only one sane policy, for your country and mine, to preserve our civilization ... the only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used...
...massacre are also costing Israel dearly in its relationship with Egypt. Last week Cairo's prestigious newspaper al Ahram called for an international tribunal "on the lines of Nuremberg" to investigate the massacre, while the mass-circulation al Akbar declared that the incident had demonstrated that Israel is "militarist, fascist and terrorist." Along the same line, Egypt's Defense Minister, Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala, called on Arab countries to develop a "joint strategy" in order to offset Israel's increasing military superiority. It was quite a departure from the spirit of Camp David...
Spiegelman points to a disturbingly plausible reason the media attempts to dismember, discredit and distort anti-militarist politics "The major mass media are intimately linked to the military-industrial-banking-complex, which has every thing to lose it as Brecht put it in Mother Courage, 'peace breaks out "'Morgan Guaranty Trust (MGT) holds top percentages of voting stock in the Washington Post (MGT is the third most powerful voter), the Gannett Newspapers. CBS, Time, and ABC. The bank also holds the leading percentages of voting stock in defense corporations such as United Technologies (where MGT holds the number-one voting...
...current prominence, Paredes is not likely to emerge as Panama's new strongman. Behind him is Colonel Manuel Antonio Noriega, the chief of intelligence, who is likely to become guard commander once Paredes resigns to start his election campaign. Noriega is considered a brutal militarist and ideological hard-liner who may ultimately surface as the most influential force in the country. "All the musical chairs are now in place in the National Guard," says a Western intelligence analyst. "Now they have to go through the façade of democracy...