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...police state, though factories have their "thought propaganda teams." The legions of children seen drilling in military fashion in Peking's Tienanmen Square probably do not refleet militarism so much as the fact that the army is largely running the country and organizing it along familiar lines. No outright repression is apparently needed, since the Chinese give every indication of working voluntarily, even zealously, to the point that one observer felt that they literally had no concept of individuality, only of their own role within the state...
Japanese firms now hold outright over 60,000 square miles of on and offshore concessions in Indonesia. In the last year, moreover, Japanese firms have bought into concessions of at least four other foreign oil companies in Indonesia and Malaysia, and have shown interest in getting involved in offshore exploration in the Philippines, Burma, and Thailand. Japanese firms are reportedly negotiating with the Burmese, although Burma has long been ideologically opposed to foreign private investment...
...Such outright curtailment was a possibility at the meeting. A picket line might have forcibly kept anyone from entering the building; the men might have been attacked, kidnapped, or shot, or arrested by a People's Tribunal. All those things were conceivable, if remote, but none of them happened. Things like that happen to some left group every day, and one must remember that in police raids, the police do not merely ring a group's headquarters and chant anti-leftist slogans...
Turkey's civil politicians now have the choice of forming a coalition cabinet or rallying round some member of Demirel's dominant Justice Party who would be more acceptable to the army. Either out of fear of an outright military takeover or, more likely, out of tacit agreement with the generals' move, most Turks accepted the change with equanimity. Even the extremist student group Dev-genc (an acronym for "revolutionary youth movement") joined in a declaration of support for any reforms that the military might have in mind...
Students and alumnae wonder whether it is worth "selling out" to Harvard without first safeguarding specific female interests such as more women on the faculty, equal admissions policy, the Radclie Institute, and day-care. They question the necessity for immediate merger and propose alternatives such as an outright gift from Harvard, cut-backs on tuition, and even the use of capital funds. They point out that Harvard's financial situation is also precarious and that the every-tub-on-its-own-bottom philosophy is not applicable to Radcliffe. As one alumna wrote to Gilbert, "I am unimpressed with the financial...