Word: remolded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...setting was a conference on constitutional reform, and Gorton, 66, kicked off the proceedings by quoting Omar Khayyam: "Would we not shatter it to bits-and then remold it nearer to the Heart's desire...
Concludes Wilson: "We have learned, I should think, that there are limits to what government can accomplish in human affairs generally and in criminal affairs particularly. It cannot export democracy, remold human character, revitalize families; nor can it rehabilitate in large number thieves and muggers...
...restore order, to maintain calm, to remold South Viet Nam into a new socialist image-these were the tasks facing the new Communist rulers of Viet Nam last week. In the ten days after their triumphant entry into Saigon, they wasted no time in starting on them. Reports from the new Viet Nam-some from the Communists' Liberation Radio, but others from reputable Western journalists still in the city-suggested that calm and order had indeed been quickly restored. Unlike the ruthless new rulers of Cambodia (see story page 26), the victors in Viet Nam seemed anxious...
...terror against him by Chilean rightists. Yet Allende, a Chilean Senator who leads the radical Socialist Party, which is left of Chile's Communists, proudly boasts of his Marxist goals. "The capitalist regime has failed," he says. If elected, Allende promises a government-led revolution that would totally remold the country's social and economic order. He makes no secret of his admiration for Castro...
Little Soldiers. Despite such disappointing results, Peking is pressing ahead with its efforts to remold China's children. The Communist Youth League, disbanded by the Red Guards and now being revived, is aimed at the 14-to-25 age group. For those in the seven-to-14 category, Peking has created the Little Red Soldiers organization, a successor to the now-defunct Young Pioneers. The Little Red Soldiers already have their own pantheon of heroes. Most notable are the five children who are said to have perished while fighting a forest fire. Radio Peking solemnly insists they leaped into...