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That is not the way things were supposed to be, and Lottman is pain-fully aware of it, but without the money to pay competitive wages, he feels powerless to do much. At any rate, SNCC workers have from time to time lashed out at the notion of a white-dominated newspaper for Negroes. As one SNCC staffer put it, "Man, it's just one more white man tryin' to tell me what to think." SNCC seriously discussed at one point organizing a boycott of the Courier. The idea apparently was forgotten by the time of last year's elections...
None of this amounts to open revolt. Czech writers, whatever their new independence, are powerless to save from an almost certain prison sentence their colleague Jan Beneš, who was on trial last week in Prague for smuggling his manuscripts abroad. Yet the rising tide of protest seems to be achieving a degree of success. There is speculation that Soviet censors may soon release for publication Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward, a novel about Stalin's secret police that has been smothered in recent years for ideological reasons. Some prominent Russian writers are even predicting that the regime...
...Arabs are suffering from one of history's worst inferiority complexes, caused by the shock of discovering that a glorious past has become irrelevant in a powerless present. The original Arabs were the Semitic tribesmen of the Arabian Peninsula, the passionate nomads and born makers of creeds, whom T. E. Lawrence called "people of primary colors." Today one can hardly define an Arab; the name spans a racial rainbow. "Arabs" may be squat Lebanese, tall Saudis, white Syrians or grape-black Sudanese. They include dollar-dizzy Kuwaiti, secretive Druzes, Gallicized Algerians and Christian Copts. Only about 10% are nomads...
...consider charges against Senators for actions performed in their official capacity, but it did allow the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate to be sued. Presumably, the Court could order the Clerk of the House to inscribe Powell's name on the list of members, but it would be powerless to force the House to stop treating him as a non-member...
...order. But the fact is that in "hard core" cases the social agencies, by their own admission, have failed. As a result, the police have a problem: the ghetto youth, whose life has repeatedly taught him to respect only physical power, has only limited respect for the powerless policeman. Part of the answer to gang crime, then, is a reevaluation of the "be tough" policy. Putting these youths on the receiving end of police bullets or nightstick often opens their eyes to right and wrong. The hard facts of the situation require that, oftentimes, gang guns will have...