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...Partial Call-Up. South Africa none theless is prepared for the worst when Maoist Leader Machel comes to power in June. A partial call-up of reserves has already bolstered army strength along the 360-mile border with Mozambique...
...last forever, Genovese can treat people from a dead society as equals. He doesn't need to devote himself to demonstrating that slaves and masters both acted like human beings, or that slavery was an oppressive and unfair economic system. Instead he can examine the interplay between these two partial truths, and their synthesis in "the beauty and power of the human spirit under conditions of extreme oppression...
...people he discusses as members of social classes that no longer exist, that stamped their humanity without destroying it, he's able to understand them as we might wish to be understood by the scholar of the future. He's able to understand them--as an older synthesis of partial truths has it--as people making their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing. And by remembering always the horse and his seemingly invincible rider, thrown into the sea and utterly destroyed, Genovese is able to remind us that not even those circumstances are immutable, that people have...
...following is the partial text of a letter written July 18 by Rep. Michael J. Harrington '62 (D-Mass.). The letter was sent to Congressional leaders in an effort to provoke further investigations into the role played by the CIA in destabilizing the government of Salvador Allende. The revelations in the letter, first made public by New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh, prompted the current flurry of protest over U.S. interference in Chilean affairs. The "40 Committee" referred to by Harrington was headed by Kissinger...
...great many Americans feel that the press (among many other institutions) fails to listen to them attentively, and fails to give them a chance to speak up or talk back. This week we introduce two features in response-or at least partial response-to this sentiment. One is Forum, a revamped Letters section, open to comment from readers, prominent and otherwise. The second is Soundings, a scientific polling of opinions and trends in American society...