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...Your article on the plight of Burma saddened me [Nov. 24], but your description of the Karen tribesmen as "warlike" is not accurate. My father, grandfather and great-grandfather spent their lives working with the Karen people in the Tharrawaddy and Toungoo hills, and I played with the Karen children and spoke their language during my childhood in Burma. We found the Karens cooperative, very eager to learn and loyal. Their desire to improve themselves and their successes aroused the jealousies of the Burmese who were content to live off the lush plains of the Irrawaddy River delta. EDWARD...
...connection between Avatar's plight and Mayor Hayes' celebrated war on hippies is unmistakable. On November 13, City Councillors Sullivan and Vellucci frantically denounced Avatar as "the dirtiest stuff that was ever published" and "so filthy that I wouldn't want anyone to read it." Sullivan then introduced an order asking DeGugleielmo to confer with the Chief of Police "with a view to instituting proceedings for criminal prosecution of the owners, writers and distributors of the so-called 'hippie' newspapers now being sold through the City." Of course, the order was not necessary. Working through the permit ordinance--and outside...
Historical Footnote. Nor is he a headline hound. His name alone assures heavy coverage, his activities have made most of it favorable, and his common sense precludes him from pushing his luck. Even on such an emotional issue as the plight of Vietnamese refugees, Kennedy has been low-key. He had studied the problem closely for two years, while quietly getting the Administration to provide additional medical and other assistance, before he staged open committee hearings this fall. In January he plans to return to Viet Nam for another check on the treatment of civilians...
...blonde girl wept at the entrance because she had forgotten to register for a fall course in urban problems at Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Her interest in the plight of the cities was almost as touching as her determination to sit at the feet of the New School's newest lecturer, Conservative Spokesman William F. Buckley Jr., 42. Though urbanity flowed like sarsaparilla, Buckley never did get around to talking about the cities in his first class. Instead, he led his enraptured students through a 90-minute recitative of conservative epigrams, to wit: "The main...
...tragic events squarely on Israel." All of this fits what Peretz says has become the New Left's Middle East dogma: that "Israel and Israel alone must bear the blame for the past and the responsibility for the future. Not, it should be clear, only for the plight of the Arab refugees, but for the behavior of the Arab regimes as well, and even (how powerful little Israel must have become!) for the policy of the Soviet Union, its sycophants (at least when Jews are in question), and virtually the entire Third World...