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...their native land as soon as they got the opportunity? As they waited in line at Tamiami the refugees talked about their reasons for leaving. Most described a combination of factors: the island's spreading poverty, made worse in the past year by tobacco-and sugar-crop failures; outright political repression; a gray and stultifying atmosphere...
...Princeton game next weekend will be the deciding factor on our outright claim to the title, but New Hampshire will be tough so we are only looking as far ahead as Wednesday," Coach Bob Scalise said last night...
...Iraqi attack on the islands would probably lead to outright war with Iran. In that event, it would be hard to predict the outcome of the struggle. Iraq's population is only a third the size of Iran's, and Baghdad would suffer from the fact that the three disputed islands lie 490 miles away from its border, at the opposite end of the Persian Gulf. On the other hand, Iraq's armed forces are believed to be the second most powerful in the region, after Israel's, while those of Iran have lost manpower, equipment...
...accepted high political risks at home to gain long-range influence among moderates on the Continent. Ever since the Communists' losses in last year's election, "historic compromise" of a governing alliance with established democratic parties has become elusive. For one thing, the Communists were shunted into outright opposition by the new center-left coalition government of Christian Democrats, Socialists and Republicans formed two weeks ago by Premier Francesco Cossiga. For another, the Communist Party's own vaunted internal discipline has suffered; last month, for the first time, more than 30 left-wing Communist deputies rebelled against...
...overthrow of capitalism. He doesn't explain how he can accomplish the reforms he proposes--direct challenges to capitalist assumptions--without changing the capitalist system. As the example of the Allende government in Chile indicates, democratically-elected socialist governments may have to combat a lack of business confidence or outright business sabotage. As head of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), Harrington is committed to peaceful change and socialist reform: he should spell out how to get there...