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...Park's constitutional document. Fact was, it would permit the soldiers of the military junta to exchange their khaki uniforms for mufti, and continue ruling as before. Contemptuous of the "parliamentary impotence'' of civilian politicians. General Park reduced the National Assembly to the role of a powerless rubber stamp. Full powers were given to the popularly elected President. Leading candidate for that office, and almost certain winner in elections next March, is General Park himself...
...they looked somewhat like bandits fleeing the bobbies. Some were doing precisely that. Smash-and-grab robbers used the occasion to carry off thousands of pounds worth of loot from London's jewelers and banks. Scotland Yard's crack Flying Squad, reduced to a crawl, was virtually powerless to stop them...
...there is another way in which this politicking is relevant to the failure of Congress; it makes one wonder why we haven't heard more of this sort of talk. The President's very brilliance on the stump gives the lie to claim that he was politically powerless against a recalcitrant Congress...
...member of the minority, feels the force of his enemy at school when his classmates shun him. His mother's love is powerless to help, his father is resigned. But a fable he is told gives him insight into his enemy. It tells of Germany's Kaiser, who was presented with some elks by the Czar of Russia and tried to duplicate their natural habitat. But they all died, because they missed the stimulation of the wolves who had preyed on them...
With such sympathy for his adversary, the hero is powerless to act against him. Though accused of cowardice, he refuses to join his fellow victims in resistance. He dreams of eventual reconciliation with his adversary: "Jubilation, all, all, without distinction, friends and enemies." But when B. seizes power, such illusions are shattered. B.'s hatred turns out to be barren and implacable, his cruelty an end in itself. "Even hatred cannot exist without a drop of love," the hero muses, "or it is no longer hatred but a cold devastation, a heavy mist across the fields that blots...