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...Nieman Fellows--journalists spending a year taking courses at Harvard--were to have three guests this week: Daniel Ellsberg '52, the one-time Rand Corp. analyst who released the Pentagon Papers; William E. Colby, director of the Central Intelligence Agency; and Victor Marchetti, co-author of "The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence...
Frome, 54, is a successful lecturer, magazine writer and author (Rand McNally National Park Guide), whose Stream columns have crusaded for preservation of wilderness areas since...
...excluded the indigenous people of its land from the basics of survival. The average arrest rate of Africans for passbook violations is over 3,000 per day; the violator is subject to fail, fines, and/or whipping with no trial. The average monthly wage for an African is 7 rand ($9.80). South Africa has the world's largest hanging rate, with 118 executed in 1968 alone. The passbook has been called the pillar of apartheid, the main tool with which the white-ruling clique keeps the African majority under its thumb...
...wherefore of Greenspan's sympathy for Wall Street brokers became clear when I read of his fascination with Ayn Rand's Objectivism. Certainly it is understandable that his concern would lie with captains of finance rather than with those of us unable to accumulate anything...
Imagine the elderly, the disabled, the poor, declaring with Rand's protagonist, John Gait "... that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for [me]." Suffering on low, fixed incomes, they can't even live for themselves. Well, let 'em eat dog food...