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...superpower. As a result, a consensus has been emerging that favors a stronger U.S. military establishment, something that would have seemed impossible only a few years ago. Badly?and unfairly?scarred by the Viet Nam War, the armed services were forced into a period of retrenchment, receiving little popular backing for their expensive needs...
...ignore it were the notoriously brutal Treasury Police, who killed 18 people in a savage attack on striking workers at four large factories in the capital. Leftist terrorists cut loose with an orgy of violent protest, blowing up three power plants and burning seven buses. The 75,000-member Popular Revolutionary Bloc, the largest of El Salvador's leftist movements, denounced the new junta as merely a "change of face" and planned a mass demonstration in San Salvador. While giving permission for the demonstration, the new junta warned that it would use force, if necessary, to prevent...
...rioting was only part of a broad surge of unrest against Park's autocratic rule. Three days before the Pusan riots, all 69 opposition deputies in the 231-member National Assembly angrily resigned to protest the expulsion of their popular leader, New Democratic Party Chief Kim Young Sam. The assembly majority-carefully stacked with tame members appointed by Park-had voted to oust Kim after he attacked the government as "a basically dictatorial regime," called on the U.S. to "pressure" Park on behalf of human rights and declared that he was prepared to discuss reunification with North Korean Dictator...
...Eagles, one of America's top-selling acts (their last album, 1976's Hotel California, sold 12 million copies worldwide), have been popular favorites even as they have endured some tough drubbing from the critics. The group, particularly Co-Writers Don Henley and Glenn Frey, have been taking it on the chin for such presumed transgressions as coldness, stylistic calculation and lyrical arrogance. Some of this criticism is justified. The Eagles are a motivating commercial force in rock more than a creative one. The Sad Cafe tries to shape a coda for the '60s by shoring...
Boggling figures of that sort have been popular as curiosities ever since Archimedes tried to calculate how many grains of sand the universe could contain (1051, he said). Today, however, mind-walloping numbers are no longer oddities; they are the stuffing of ordinary news and public discourse. While even the biggest figures no doubt possess meaning, it is impossible not to suspect that many casually circulated numbers might as well be the music of the spheres...