Word: reform
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...conflicting views from the Soviet Union, both aimed at influencing an act of the U.S. Congress. A gross interference in U.S. politics? Not really, since the object of this unusual international lobbying is Title Five of the Nixon Administration's Trade Reform Act of 1973. That section of the bill would grant the Soviet Union so-called most-favored-nation status as a trading partner, entitling it to lower tariffs. The amendment to which Sakharov refers, as does Brezhnev indirectly, was first introduced nearly a year ago by Democratic Senator Henry Jackson. It would prevent Nixon from placing...
...National Liberation Front was always strongest in rural areas. Its policy of local participation in effecting extensive land reform appealed to peasants oppressed by an inequitable colonial land tenure system. Its courageous resistance to the American war also attracted widespread support. But now terror bombing has herded many of the peasants into the cities, where Thieu's police can watch over them and make NLF efforts difficult. The extent of this forced urbanization is telling: southern Vietnam, 20 per cent urban in the early 1960s, is over 60 per cent urban today...
...government. Without U.S. assistance, his army, the fourth-largest in the world, will be unable to survive, and his government will soon follow it into well-deserved oblivion. As the Vietnamese return to their homes, the National Liberation Front will be able to continue its land reform program and construct a national state based on popular support which will be free from foreign domination...
Grass's political task, however, is perhaps the most difficult one he could have chosen. It is no longer the easier job of coming to terms with his own guilt, but of making the politics of compromise and reform--the politics of the snail--attractive. Grass is subtle enough to realize that "snails" are not intrinsically attractive, and that there is little that can be merely argued to justify his position beyond the kind of statements about the extremes of right and left being similar in their tyranny which he made in Lowell Lect. on Tuesday...
...probably prepared by now for a feminist rap. But it's obvious, isn't it, what King has done? She has won male privileges for the ladies. Which is as old as Suffragette Reform, half a century old to be exact. And in 1973, that's settling for a sorry second. It's bargaining for equality without questioning the social systems that institutionalize inequality -- rather like to bail a boat on the bottom...