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Similar magazines have been founded this summer by Flathead Indians in Ronan, Mont., Chicanes in Berkeley, Calif., Navajos in Ramah, N. Mex., and both Indians and Eskimos in Alaska. Unlike Foxfire's originators, who began with $400 raised from parents and friends, the other groups can obtain money and guidance from IDEAS, Inc., a Washington-based educational foundation that has hired Wigginton as its $425-a-month adviser. Wig has settled permanently in Rabun Gap, where he is building a log cabin home. Now 29, he summered in the town as a child with his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spreading Foxfire | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...certain minorities, such as Spain's Basques or the Bretons of France, for regional autonomy. The most recent country to be struck by a wave of minority discontent is, of all places, peaceful little Switzerland. Investigating a suspicious fire at an army ammunition depot near Delémont on the French border recently, authorities found the letters FLJ-"Front de Libération Jurassien daubed on in fresh paint. The front is the more militant of two organizations representing dissident Swiss in the Jura region of Bern canton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Vive le Jura Libre! | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...known as Les Beliers (The Rams), has mounted such protests as tarring Bern streetcar tracks to halt traffic and barricading the entrance to the cantonal legislature. The smaller, more aggressive FLJ has set fire to buildings and dynamited railroads in addition to attacking the ammunition depot at Delémont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Vive le Jura Libre! | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) lost a test vote on Monday on his amendment to force an unconditional withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Vietnam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Opposes Full Withdrawal | 7/25/1972 | See Source »

...books could be read where they might most be enjoyed, this one would be saved for a bleak day at Mont-St.-Michel, with the high tide rolling gray against the rocks and Gregorian chant echoing in the mind. ·Mayo Mohs

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alone at Last | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

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