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Sociobiology, by encouraging biological and genetic explanations for racism, war and genocide, exonerates and protects the groups and individuals who have carried out and benefited from these monstrous orimes. Proclaiming fascist-like behavior as part of the "human biogram," it can only regard anti-fascist behavior as an "exception" which confirms a universal human nature. What an insult to tens of millions of people...
...Room ceremony, Carter praised Schlesinger lavishly, saying that they had formed "an almost instant personal friendship." The treatment left Schlesinger glowing. But Attorney General Bell and Director of Management and Budget Bert Lance are old Georgia comrades of Carter's. The President has also shown a particularly high regard in the past for Vance, Brown, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Chief Economic Adviser Charles Schultze...
...when he advocates nuclear disarmament. It is this kind of idealism that worries many. Example: Richard Burt of London's International Institute for Strategic Studies warns that "the very high hopes of Carter's Administration are likely to be dashed" once he understands how highly Soviet leaders regard raw military power as an instrument of international relations. "The Kennedy people got disillusioned, then they got angry, and finally they overreacted," notes Burt, referring to the deterioration of U.S.-Soviet relations that culminated in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis...
Premier Adolfo Suarez canceled a long-planned visit to the Middle East. Promising to combat violence "without regard to persons, groups or ideologies," the government at first banned demonstrations, and later suspended, for one month, two articles of Spain's Bill of Rights that protect against arbitrary search and assure the right to be charged within 72 hours of arrest. Police arrested more than 30 people, including Mariano Sanchez Covisa, a leader of the Guerrilleros (who was later released), 15 non-Spaniards and several members of extreme left groups. The government deported another 70 foreigners, many of them from...
...somewhat prim Swiss have begun to kiss socially. Italians are enthusiastic kissers and have been for generations; the same is true of Slavs. Arab men greet one another with kisses, as do Arab women. The British remain reticent about social kissing. The Japanese, along with many other Orientals, regard kissing -at least in public-as a Western custom, highly unsanitary and offensive...