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...machinery of a democratic society is regarded as force" he said, "then we cannot even agree at the outset. If one is robbed, he calls in the police, he does not try to negotiate...
...outset Lo had used Chinese Red army troops for his pacification act. The Conference authorized him to create a new, politically conscious People's Armed Police like the Soviet MVD militia. Lo recruited and trained, technically and ideologically, thousands of trusted party workers and intellectuals, at the same time purging the existing forces of doubtful elements. He soon fashioned an organization of some eight interlocking bureaus specializing in intelligence, counterespionage, personnel, economic defense (i.e., preventing strikes, collecting taxes), frontier defense, anti-guerrilla work, supervising forced labor camps and normal police duties. Total strength: approximately...
McLendon explained yesterday: "It has been from the outset, and still is, in view of the greater difficulty of the other readings, much better that the limited time in the section meetings be devoted to clarification of the more difficult texts, rather than to Fletcher's valuable but not especially difficult book...
Freshman football coaches are understandably presented with a large undertaking for mere mortals when they start work with a new crop of candidates. Although Yardling coach Bob Margarita had a potentially good team at the outset of the season, he was no exception to this rule...
Deadfall's first blunder is to show all this at the outset, so that the second, or courtroom, half of the evening merely drives in the coffin nails. There is no suspense and-a second serious error-no final twist that might help save the day. Among other blunders, the writing is studiously mediocre...