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M.I.T.'s Paul Macavoy, 42, member of Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers and now of Ford's, cited the Government's ubiquitous presence as one reason why people feel powerless. "Every aspect of employment is controlled by a federal agency," said Macavoy, "from hiring to retiring, size, shape, color, composition, seniority, technical facility, how you advertise and buy and sell labor...
...global wrath against the Canadian government is certain," wrote the Frankfurter Allgemeine. "In a confrontation between sports and politics, sports proved to be powerless." "Politics should not be an issue any more than religion," said Edward W. ("Moose") Krause, athletic director at Notre Dame. "This just makes me sick." Lord Killanin, head of the International Olympic Committee, was sick too. "Government interference is the most serious problem we face," he declared. "We're scarred, and I, as president, have had my eye blackened...
Victories were trumpeted whenever a rifle was discharged. The London press reported triumphs on the order of Salamis and Marathon. Proclamations and constitutions also were reported, issued by competing delegations of penniless and powerless clerks, who scuttled about the countryside in city clothes and called themselves governments...
...ambitious an operation so far from home. The difficulties of mounting a raid in Uganda thus argued strongly in favor of trying negotiations. Indeed, late in the week, reviewing his country's meager options, an Israeli official sadly (although not quite accurately) concluded: "Since we are completely powerless to act, we have no choice but to make a deal...
...fighting. The I.R.A. is filled with the excommunicated, whose religious observances are limited to theatrical funerals for its martyrs. But the violence persists with a life of its own, like a hereditary disease. It is an anomaly of such conflicts that organized religion is powerless to stop them-as if a war involving religion were too important to be left to churchmen...