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...weeks ago, General Chen Tsai-tao, whose command includes the vital Yangtze River hub city, seized two top Mao emissaries sent from Peking to bring Chen to heel. Peking negotiated the pair's release; but despite frantic efforts since then, Mao has been unable to subdue the open rebellion in Wuhan...
Only a very small minority of Negroes are in active rebellion against "Whitey," and only a small minority loot, but many more-well into the millions-look on with tolerance and even admiration...
...snipers' bullets spanged off sidewalks, night sticks crunched on skulls, and looters made off with the entire inventory of scores of stores (one small Negro boy was seen carrying table lamps his own size). New Jersey's Governor Richard Hughes proclaimed Newark a "city in open rebellion," declared a state of emergency, and called out the National Guard. More than 4,000 city police, state troopers and Guardsmen patrolled the city's debris-littered streets...
...Patience. The wave of protests in the U.S.S.R. also encourages rebellion in fellow Communist nations of Eastern Europe. Doubtless encouraged by Solzhenitsyn, Polish writers at their recent congress passed a resolution demanding that the censors fully explain every deletion in the future. Earlier this month, delegates to the Czechoslovak Writers' Union Congress were so stormy in their demands that the Politburo member assigned as the writers' watchdog, Jiři Hendrych, rose and sputtered: "I have finally reached the end of my patience with you people." Later Hendrych stomped out when all the delegates endorsed Solzhenitsyn...
...smaller number of families whose principal function would be child rearing; the rest of the population would be free to function-for the first time in history-as individuals." This will result from worldwide birth control and the "massive failure" of the present family setup (as evidenced by "adolescent rebellion cults, overt and aggressive male homosexuality, female promiscuity, and a growing incidence of alcoholism, addiction and psychosomatic disorders in both sexes"). In the new family relationship she envisions that "companionship for work, play and stable living would come to be based on many different combinations, within and across sex lines...