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...Britain's foremost students of Russian affairs here describes the deportation from their homelands in the Caucasus of the entire populations of eight small nations. The Soviet pretext during World War II was that all those people were traitorous. By Conquest's calculation, about 1.6 million were uprooted and sent to the East. Of these, he estimates, 600,000 died as a result of the move...
...investment guidelines in case involving the "surrounding community." It is the stonethrowers-especially those within the walls-who worry the Committee. So they have chosen to cover up the wall, drape it over with interdisciplinary faculties and fact-finders and equivocations. They have chosen not to tear down the pretext of a billion-dollar corporation existing solely as a "center of free inquiry." They have chosen not to plug up the holes through which Harvard channels money to irresponsible corporations. They have chosen to mask the issue in words without purpose. They have chosen to avoid the issues and hope...
...border this week U. S. planes were already staging the heaviest air raids over North Vietnam since last November. And now that North Vietnamese long-range artillery is reportedly moving into position in the Demilitarized Zone near the U. S. base at Khe Sanh, Nixon has another pretext for resumed air raids...
...Eliot. At the conclusion of his bloody bloody chronicle Ouologuem does not presume to forgive either blacks or whites. But in the remarkable final chapter-having turned from historian to novelist-he turns from novelist to mystic. "Politics," he writes accusingly, "does not know the goal but forges a pretext of a goal." Negritude or colonialism, black power or white power-on these terms, history makes victims, if not slaves of us all. With a skepticism nearly as pure as faith, Ouologuem concludes: one ought to despair of men's ancient compulsion to rationalize tyranny and "believe...
...Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, last week declared coexistence with Jordan impossible and openly called for Hussein's overthrow. Fatah, which seeks harmony with Hussein as the safest course, suggested that the Popular Front was giving the King's men a pretext to attack guerrilla groups...