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...Addis Ababa last week, reports: "Shooting broke out all over the capital late on Sunday afternoon and continued sporadically for twelve hours. Automatic weapons chattered incessantly, and the crump of exploding grenades punctuated the firing. Cars were banned from the streets, and roadblocks set up to restrict movement by foot. Next day the government-controlled papers announced that 'one anarchist' had been killed-although hundreds of weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition had been confiscated. Local hospitals had been forbidden to give out body counts, but an orderly at Menelik whispered to me in Amharic, 'Bizualee...
...proposed gas tax should correctly be called "The Carter Old, Poor and Workman Tax" since it will: 1) penalize the workingman dependent on the auto to and from his job, 2) hurt the poor who cannot afford new little cars, 3) restrict the old on fixed pensions, 4) increase food prices even further due to higher farming and trucking costs, and 5) make the auto manufacturers wealthy through accelerated replacement of large autos with small ones...
...costumes show little imagination. Berger wears the compulsory red, white and blue flag shirt, and the entire cast is decked out in their most ragged blue jeans. Anti-war symbols and flowers abound; even the tie-dyed backdrop sports a large peace sign. But because the actors do not restrict themselves to the stage, instead mixing with the audience, the low budget scenery is barely noticeable...
...whole controversy comes down to one question: Who wants to restrict the progress of brilliant men, working in their own fields without destructive or pecuniary motives...
...Comparative Study of Religion program could accomodate 13 or 14 students per class if the charter did not restrict it, William A. Graham Jr., head tutor in the Religion program, said yesterday...