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...local government. Have you ever heard of a central government that doesn't interfere in local affairs?" Asked how native-born Taiwanese would respond to any opening of negotiations between Taipei and Peking, Kang Ning-hsiang, a popular Taiwanese legislator, replied: "We'd fight, we'd revolt. People in Taiwan aren't interested in having the kind of life they lead on the mainland...
...attempt on the American General Kroesin in West Germany has only aggravated the situation. Accusations have even been made that anti-nuclear protests throughout Europe and especially in Holland are secretly Soviet-supported and financed. America has, rightly or wrongly, singled out Holland as the leader of this apparent 'revolt', but she is a leader without support. Important loans and industrial contracts have been held up and the Dutch are powerless to respond. As with the Chinese fiasco, the Dutch, because of diplomatic shortsightedness, have been placed in a damaging predicament now beyond their control...
...like the Mujahedin, not because they supported the Shah," says Ali Shahin Fatimi, editor of an Iranian newsletter in Paris. Other Iranian intellectuals in exile criticize Banisadr's arrogance and political naivete. Says one: "If he could not do anything as President, and if he cannot organize a revolt from within Tehran itself, what can Banisadr possibly do from Paris?" It is a question that the mullahs were also asking themselves last week in Tehran. -By William Drozdiak...
There can be little doubt that the Oedipal stirrings of many American patriots contributed to their willingness to revolt. The four men Shaw portrays were hardly unique in their view of the king as a father. Images of England as an unjust parent appear repeatedly in the pamphlet literature of the period, and influential works like John Dickinson's "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" rely heavily on the America-as-wronged-child motif. Such metaphors served to remind Americans, in easily acessible terms, of the harshness of the British rejection. As Dickinson wrote. "The parent company...drew to herself...
While trying to quash a revolt in the Philippines in 1904, American troops discovered that their .38-cal. revolvers were not very effective against the frenzied attacks of Moro tribesmen. The call went out for a handgun with "stopping power," and in 1911, the U.S. issued the Colt .45-cal. automatic to its men. Now, after 70 years of service, the Army plans to retire the legendary .45-as well as the .38-cal. revolver -and replace them both with a new 9-mm model...