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What lessons can Americans learn from these remarkable people? They can reassess their attitudes toward the role of violence in social change, recognizing that a consideration of violence that ignores the social and political context is meaningless. The actions of the American government in Southeast Asia were not criminal merely because they unleashed indiscriminate violence against a smaller nation. They were criminal because the destruction was intended to annihilate a people who were striving to achieve some measure of dignity and control over thei own lives--an objective Americans have traditionally championed. What should trouble Americans is not the realization...
...that more than 80% of this year's entries in Who's Who Among American High School Students approve of President Nixon's policies. Those policies have sanctioned the pushbutton killing and maiming of thousands in Indochina. Let's hope these possible future leaders reassess their priorities in the next few years. Our tomorrows must not be manipulated by those who value so-called patriotism more than human life. TINA LUSKEY...
...human race. Apart from his obsessive need to "reexamine all human action as animal" for his audience. Berners is attempting to justify himself before his God and his "needle-crucified" son, Raoul, who functions as a sort of Christ figure. Raoul's disappearance has forced his father to reassess his own life in terms of his childhood religion (the Protestantism of the Berne fathers) and a strange breed of reverse-Darwinism. Perversely apprenticed to the "monkey-man," he has come to view young people as diseased mutations, prone to an universal sickness that is dragging mankind towards extinction...
CHINA: Since 1949, Japan has followed U.S. policy in withholding recognition, despite strong pro-Chinese agitation from the opposition parties. But since the Peking summit, the government painfully has had to reassess its position. "It is necessary for China and Japan to re-establish diplomatic relations. That is quite natural in view of the ties of 2,000 years of history between the two countries. Since the official entry of China into the United Nations, efforts are being pursued to normalize relations. As for Japan's relations with Taiwan, there is not only a treaty, but geographically and historically...
...drive. The U.S. emphasized its willingness to return to the negotiating table at any time. But the odds seemed to be that nothing much would happen there until the present phase of the North Vietnamese invasion had run its course-and both sides stood back from the ruins to reassess their positions in view of the outcome...