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...conditions you live in. They don't help you, and the Faculty and administration do not respect sycophants. Electing them only serves to reinforce the low opinion most professors and deans already have for student politicians. The next thing is to realize that the administration is not a monolith. There are both good and bad administrators and some are more concerned with students than others. Find the ones who care and work with them...
...Communist Party. The accessibility and volubility of Portuguese leaders contrasts sharply with the remoteness of government officials in his home base, Franco's Spain. There, he plots appointments for interviews well in advance and finds that "covering politics in Madrid is a relentless search for holes in the monolith...
...political prisoners in the U.S.S.R. and even more people persecuted for their religious convictions. At the same time, only a small number of people, mostly concentrated in two or three cities, make up what may be called "the democratic movement." But their very existence within the monolith of Soviet society is of great ethical significance...
...RELATIONS WITH THE U.S. In the past, some American politicians were unable to recognize the independence of national Communist parties. There has been a tendency to feel that all parties are integral parts of a Communist monolith. This was the case in Viet Nam. American leaders did not understand in time that they were dealing with a great national force. As far as the Italian Communist Party is concerned, we ask only that America not interfere in Italian internal affairs. I would very much like to have an opportunity to explain to American political personalities what our policy really...
...cohesive country with a strong government, a booming economy and powerful, well-equipped armed forces. While there is internal opposition to the often repressive measures of President Park Chung Hee, there is nothing remotely resembling civil war; even the most outspoken dissidents, in fact, loathe the Communist monolith in Pyongyang, and North Korean infiltrators are almost invariably turned in by citizens to the South's security forces...