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...been urging Smith to negotiate a settlement on black majority rule, warned the terrorists not to go too far. Killing innocent tourists, he said, "can only unleash forces which could have far-reaching effects." Increasingly, South Africans were worried about the growing Rhodesian crisis. Editorialized Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail: "Having let slip one chance after another of reaching an accommodation with more moderate black leaders, Rhodesia's whites seem to have made the tragic choice of facing black nationalism over the barrel of a gun rather than the conference table. The downhill road toward a race...
...program. Moreover, the State Board of Education has requested a $454 million appropriation to introduce the same type of program into secondary schools beginning in 1977. As Stanford Education Professor Michael Kirst says, "The general climate of opinion about E.C.E. is positive." Indeed, according to John Pincus, a Rand Corp. analyst and professed skeptic on educational reform, the California effort has the potential of becoming "the broadest reform in public education since the introduction of the comprehensive high school 75 years...
Commenting on a survey published recently in The New York Times that listed inflation, unemployment, and moral deterioration as the three leading public concerns, Rand said these are "manifestations of the same evils--altruism and collectivism...
...Rand, who left her Russian birthplace while in her teens, said she believes the American people are in the midst of a, "blind, groping, ideologically helpless rebellion" against collectivism and its perpetrator, the "lousy modern intellectual...
Student activists in the 1960s were "spoiled brats out after publicity, made by the media and contributing nothing but disorder and chaos. You only contribute by persuasion and propaganda--not by lying down in the streets and looking sloppy and dirty," Rand said in answer to caught everyone's attention at the Business School...