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...demonstrations had been about. Egypt's students are chafing under harsh regulations of their conduct, including a ban on all public demonstrations. They have nothing but contempt for what they call "the society of coined slogans" produced by Nasser's controlled press. What is more, they bitterly resent the government's system of job placement, which often finally assigns them to fields for which they are unprepared...
...Boss Leonid Brezhnev, the new Soviet policy poses a threat to the sovereignty of any Communist country. No matter what doubletalk Moscow ideologues may use to disguise it, the new policy is nothing less than a doctrine of Russian imperialism-and other Communists recognize it as such and deeply resent...
...Touch Me. The first signs of hyperkinetic behavior, says Martin, may appear in the first weeks of life: "Even tiny infants with the disorder are constantly active and irritable, and have difficulty sleeping at night. They seem to stiffen and resent motherly coddling and loving. Their attitude appears to be 'Love me but don't touch me.' "These babies usually walk earlier than others. As they grow, they have excellent coordination and easily learn good balance on skates and bikes. They want playmates, but treat them so badly that they are soon shunned by the other kids...
...anxious for Russia to begin withdrawing most of the 275,000 Warsaw Pact troops still encamped on Czechoslovak soil. The Kremlin, on the other hand, is far from pleased with the pace of what the Russians call the "normalization" of Czechoslovak life. In particular, they resent the halfhearted censorship that permits most Czechoslovak news media to continue making subtle gibes at Soviet policy. On the day Dubček's delegation arrived in Moscow, the party paper Pravda complained that in Czechoslovakia "one rarely hears criticism of anti-Soviet, revisionist, right-wing forces...
After Ted's adventure in Selma, I felt a little left out. If a civil rights worker's credo was: I am harrassed, therefore I exist, what was I doing? Why didn't any rednecks resent my presence and want to threaten...