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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Atlanta. Meanwhile, eight "tractorcades" rumbled into Topeka, Kans., and similar demonstrations occurred in a dozen more Midwestern state capitals. In Washington, D.C., 600 tractors and other farm vehicles gathered near the Washington Monument. Across the country, farmers were rallying to show that they were ready to strike in order to force prices higher. Their motto: "No more producing, no more selling and no more buying...
...weigh 60 Ibs. and cost $4,000.10 per set, also reveal-at times unwittingly-an FBI afflicted with paranoia, obsessed with counterespionage, and out of the control of the Justice Department. Within 48 hours of the assassination. J. Edgar Hoover sanctioned the refusal of his underlings to follow an order from his superio, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. "Properly handled." commented Hoover after a bureau official had dismissed a Kennedy request as "unnecessary and undesirable." The FBI spied on the Texas judge who presided over the Jack Ruby trial, on the director of Central Intelligence and on the Warren Commission...
Soares' basic strategy was to play off the opposition parties against each other in order to get a majority vote. But eventually, the Social Democrats and the C.D.S., both of which favor an expansionist economic policy, found it intolerable to support policies that they had no role in formulating. The crunch issue was a proposed $1.5 billion loan from a consortium of Western countries and the International Monetary Fund. The conservative opposition accused Soares of yielding too easily to the IMF's insistence on such restrictions as low economic growth (1%), devaluation of the escudo and other austerity...
Germans are caught in a painful damned-if-they-do, damned-if-they-don't dilemma with their terrorists. If they enact tough laws against radical violence, they are "Nazis again." If they do not, social order might fray to the point that real and dangerous repression would become inevitable. As John Donne wrote. "It takes so little poison to crack the crystal...
...theories have been proposed to explain the German terrorist poison. Some ascribe it to the furor teutonicus that nourished the Nazis, but anyone discussing the country that attempted genocide should have a care about racial generalizations. Germans are methodical and tend to become unhinged by attacks on the social order. Even the terrorists are orderly and thorough in their efforts to create disorder; grimly literal minded, they zealously translate extreme theories into practice. But it is hard to argue that Germans have a greater genetic predisposition to violence than other peoples. These days most Germans are careful to avoid...