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There is, however, an even greater threat to the realization of Charles de Gaulle's loftily imprecise dream of a Europe des patries-a Europe of the fatherlands. That is the persistence of myriad old tribal and regional interests and loyalties lying within and across the Continent's national frontiers...
...Guard youth groups, Mao's standard-bearers of the Cultural Revolution, were a grave disappointment. Instead of promoting a new civilization in China, the Red Guards pursued personal goals, and they split into a myriad of factions. Party bureaucrats throughout China took advantage of Red Guard disunion and indecisiveness to organize their own youth contingents which staged battles with the Mao-inspired radicals. Workers, who were jealous of Red Guard privileges, frequently took the opportunity to chastise Mao's "Little Red Generals." As the level of violence rose throughout the country in 1967, Mao called on the army to restore...
...Elis led all the way in a ho-hum contest that was characterized by sloppy play and myriad turnovers by both teams...
Wood can be used for a variety of purposes. It can be molded cut or attached into myriad fonts, many of which are interrelated. Harvard sophomore Disk Cashin has combined two unlikely products of wood, the raquet and the oar, and he is working out on both the squash and crew teams this winter...
...gave substance to black sailors' claims that recent riots have been fueled by discrimination; it also lent credence to recent statements by Elmo Zumwalt, chief of naval operations, who has attributed such insurrections to the fact that the Navy's "middle management" has not carried out his myriad programs to ease racial tension, rather than to any lack of discipline that could be traced to his reforms of traditional Navy regulations...