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...ideas have a shred of truth behind the exaggeration and the fog of her own values; for example, her sketch of "The Sexual Revolutionist" who, aided by modern contraceptive technology and by her liberal mother, falls into a series of relationships based only on sex and finally revolts against sex completely, joining a commune of women who reject their sexual exploiters, seems fairly plausible. On the other hand, Decter cannot imagine that the revolt may have had an objective cause--widespread disillusionment with marriage as an institution, and the spread of freer sexual relations resulting from that disillusionment. Because...
...Bakongo nationalism and then to Pan-Africanism. The Bakongo, former residents of the Kingdom of the Kongo destroyed in the nineteenth century, are a populous nation divided among Zaire, Congo, and northwestern Angola, whose bitter experience with forced labor on the Portugese coffee plantations provoked them to a bloody revolt in 1961 and to energetic resistance ever since. While the FNLA's precursors sought to reconstitute the Kingdom of the Kongo, whose last king died in 1962, Roberto's contacts with African nationalists and socialists such as Fanon and Lumumba enabled him to convince his compatriots to broaden their scope...
Contributing to the freshmen's anger has been the fact that they were largely responsible for the revolt in January that dumped three committee chairmen and instituted about a dozen procedural reforms that weakened the traditional seniority system. The reformers wanted to make the House more responsive to new ideals and the will of the majority. To the dismay of the freshmen, the changes also further loosened party discipline. The liberal House Democratic Study Group has found that party unity on three of the attempts to override presidential vetoes was the feeblest in 20 years. In an unprecedented move...
...have got a pistol at our heads," said Alan Fisher, head of the Public Employees Union. "I think we shall see a lot of difficulties in the next few months." The first signs of revolt came from Members of Parliament, who have forgone a pay raise since 1971 to set an example for the rest of the country. The M.P.s get about ?5,000 ($11,000) in pay and allowances. Some are so hard-pressed that important votes must be scheduled in midweek because Members cannot afford to stay even in cheap London lodgings for more than three nights...
Less Pay. Now the scabs themselves are in revolt. The problem is that Hearst continues to pay staff members even less than smaller local papers do, an issue that drove the Guild to strike in the first place. Thus a reporter who earns $229 a week on the Her aid-Examiner (circ. 419,000) could make $298 a week on the nearby Long Beach Independent and Press-Telegram (combined circ. 151,000). The strikebreakers are not permitted to join the Guild as long as the original strike continues, so this year they petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to have...