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...Czechoslovakia, and even that was muted. In the same year, the party dashed the faith of many leftist true believers by refusing to support the insurrectionist "May events," which eventually undermined De Gaulle's presidency. The Communists saw no opportunity to take control of the worker-student rebellion that shook France, and therefore labeled it counterrevolutionary...
...Gorsuch made it a practice, as a state legislator, to oppose the EPA'S hazardous-waste and car-emission rules. Fellow Coloradan Robert Burford, chosen to head Interior's Bureau of Land Management, is a veteran of a land-hungry, anticonservationist movement collectively known as the Sagebrush Rebellion, which favors turning federally managed lands over to the states. Even John Crowell, Reagan's nominee as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in charge of the U.S. Forest Service, used to be counsel to the Louisiana-Pacific Corp., one of the largest buyers of federal timberland in the country...
When Huck Finn, that free-floating escapee from society's foibles, lit out for the "territory ahead of the others" to avoid being "sivilized," he formalized an American tradition of adolescent rebellion. Now Joel Agee, son of Writer James Agee (A Death in the Family), steps in those boyish footprints in this finely written, moving memoir. From age eight to 20, Agee's life in East Germany reveals a young swashbuckler at odds with collectivism and Teutonic culture, and with his own aspirations. By turns poetic and picturesque, Agee energetically catalogues his expatriate passage to manhood with...
...pains to show, Grant was no war lover. At Cold Harbor, it was Robert E. Lee who used his sharpshooters to pin down any movement on the battlefield, and Grant who pleaded with him for a chance to collect the wounded. Eleven years later, in 1875, when a new rebellion threatened to break out in Mississippi, Grant refused to commit federal troops lest a new war begin...
...however, the 55 m.p.h. speed limit appears headed for a stretch of rough pavement. Bills to raise or circumvent the speed limit are under consideration in more than a score of state legislatures, particularly in the West, where ornery "sagebrush rebellion" sentiment fuels anger at all kinds of federal impositions. In some states, highway patrolmen are looking the other way as speeders pass. In others, such as Texas and California, fast drivers greatly outnumber police available to stop them. Last week in Nevada, a state consisting almost entirely of wide open spaces, the Governor signed a bill that makes speeders...