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...majority rule developed, and got its philosophical sanction from John Locke, who greatly influenced the founding fathers. Alexander Hamilton warned that if "a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority ... the sense of the smaller number will overrule that of the greater." Though Thomas Jefferson could proclaim in his first Inaugural Address that "the minority possess their equal rights," he called it a "sacred principle" that "the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail." That being so, what is so equal about minority rights...
...Your article on police corruption in American cities [May 6] reactivates an age-old itch I cannot scratch. I recently retired from the Los Angeles police department after 27 years. From the early '50s. when William H. Parker became chief, I could proclaim with pride at social gatherings that I was a Los Angeles police officer...
Personnel Out. As he has with much of the violence, Perón looked the other way, since both rightists and leftists proclaim allegiance to him. But one key element in his effort to keep the country together is continued economic improvement, or at least stability, which depends in no small measure on foreign investment. Many of the kidnap victims have been foreign businessmen, such as U.S. Exxon Executive Victor Samuelson, 36, who was released last week after 144 days of captivity and after his firm paid $14.2 million hi ransom. Last November a U.S. Ford executive was killed...
...expected to encounter no resistance, to capture the academy's arsenal of weapons and vehicles, and then move on the headquarters building of the Arab Socialist Union where Sadat was giving a major speech. As implausible and bizarre as it sounds, Sareya apparently intended to arrest Sadat and proclaim himself Egypt's new President. He then supposedly planned to declare a republic based on Islamic fundamentalism, modeled after Libya...
Both the Cadillac and Cutlass low m.p.g. figures, like many others that automakers proclaim, were achieved on proving grounds, scarcely much of a test of what motorists can expect in normal driving. One indication: Chevrolet -which commendably has stayed out of the race to advertise mileage figures -found last year that four of its Impalas got 18 m.p.g. on proving grounds...