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...arrests, omnipresent military rule. Although it seems obvious that we will face these conditions here before three years are over, the United States is currently a facsimile of a liberal democracy. Rights of free speech and assembly-although subjected to increasing pressure-are still defensible and those who can muster attention and an adequate defense may still employ the tricks in our legal system to shield themselves from repression. The trial of the Chicago Eight, though disgraceful, is still a long way from the Nuremberg Trials in pre-war Germany...
...gentlemanly pro-Administration filibuster delayed passage until U.S. forces had pulled out, making the issue seem academic. Since then, the doves have been beaten on every significant amendment they have offered. On several attempts to limit Administration plans to expand the anti-ballistic missile program, the most they could muster was 47 votes. All of their efforts to cut the Pentagon budget on the floor of the Senate have proved futile. At the same time, opinion polls show that public support of the President's policies remains strong. Temporarily, at least, the doves are dispirited and in flight...
...stolen archaeological, historical and cultural properties" by Senate-ratified treaty, but makes a consequential deal with Franco by executive stipulation. Fulbright threatened to seek a congressional ban on the use of U.S. military funds in Spain unless they are authorized by treaty. There is little likelihood that he could muster a Senate majority for such a measure...
...strategic fortress, now held by rebels of their own stripe, were truly to fall into enemy hands, who knew what might occur? The Whites could play upon popular discontent, of which there was now an excess; or they might simply muster a large militia and drive the Soviets under for the last time. In any event, the prospect was a dangerous...
...Muster Day was a montage of sound and color as the 63 participating corps, resplendent in their scarlets, blues, grays and whites, drummed and fifed their way through the streets of Deep River to a ball field on the outskirts of town. There, each group performed a medley of its favorite tunes in a five-hour fife-and-drum fest that left many of the uninitiated benumbed. The tunes ranged from Yankee Doodle and other Revolutionary War melodies like Road to Boston and The World Turned Upside Down, to such Civil War favorites as Marching Through Georgia and The Battle...