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...them-and countless laymen-against such a future is that so much of it was realized. In St. Louis all 33 buildings in the unlivable concrete Pruitt-Igoe housing project were deservedly demolished in the mid-1970s. The sudden popularity of historic building preservation is, in large measure, a rebellion against modern design. "Don't tear it down" more often than not means "Don't build it up!" The phenomenal increase in handicrafts is to a certain extent a reaction against the design of industrial products. The most successful feats of contemporary urban design are not the vacuous...
...meantime, the rebellion against Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat from the ranks of his Fatah organization spread unexpectedly. Mutineers seized six Fatah military supply depots in the Damascus area. The mutiny was given a further boost by news that the commander of Fatah's civilian militia forces in Lebanon, Mousa Awad, had joined the rebels. Awad charged that Arafat and his supporters had been "deluded by American schemes." Heavy fighting reportedly broke out at week's end near the ancient city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon between Awad's men and troops loyal to Arafat...
Arafat's campaign to reassert his dominance over the P.L.O. was prompted by an unprecedented rebellion within the ranks of his Fatah organization, which has been his main power base ever since he helped found it in 1959. The mutiny, which at its peak in mid-May involved only a few hundred of the 10,000 to 15,000 P.L.O. fighters in Lebanon, apparently never posed a serious threat to Arafat's leadership. But it dramatized the weakened condition of the P.L.O. in the wake of its expulsion from Beirut last year by Israeli forces, particularly the organization...
...disparate outbursts of discontent only reflect what opinion polls have been recording for months: the Socialist government's steady fall from favor. The proportion of the population dissatisfied with the government's performance has risen to 52%, compared with 27% only a year ago. Still, rebellion was hardly a threat, if only because the political opposition prudently has avoided exploiting the scattered disorders. Former Premier Raymond Barre warned his supporters not to "fan the flames." Neo-Gaullist Leader and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac broke a long silence to warn against "an agitation that is dangerous for the social...
WHAT MADE this "human tornado" tick? What gave him the energy to devote his life to cause after cause? Eleanor Roosevelt, who worked with Allard Lowenstein in the '50s, once explained that "he will always fight crusades because injustice fills him with a sense of rebellion. "His was a body that could not sit still, a mind that could not rest. "Whenever A1 came to see me," recalls Kennedy. I knew that he brought with him a challenge to be met, a wrong to be righted, a dream to be fulfilled. He would show up unexpectedly, he would pace...