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...state in your article entitled "As Others Saw Us" [Feb. 12], which reviewed Japanese Namban art, that Christianity became extinct in Japan after the Christian revolt of 1637. This statement is perhaps misleading...
...land of apartheid, where the will of the minority is reinforced by the rule of law and the mightiest military arsenal south of the Sahara, an ever-present nightmare for the country's 4,000,000 whites is the possibility, however remote, of a revolt by South Africa's 16 million repressed blacks. Even an illegal strike by black workers for higher wages can send tremors through the country. Last week South Africa was quaking slightly, after a series of strikes that crippled the port city of Durban...
Outraged. An effort in 1970 to give blacks their fair share of representation in the school system caused a near revolt by white voters. The liberal-dominated school committee divided the city into eight school districts, each governed by a board made up of local residents. The committee also insisted that Detroit begin desegregating its high schools by busing 3,000 white children to predominantly black schools. "That was the crucial thing," recalls Golightly. "When the plan leaked to the press, all hell broke loose...
...some ways, recent events on Cyprus have been reminiscent of the EOKA underground revolt of 1955, when General George Grivas led Greek Cypriot fighters in a struggle for enosis, or union with Greece. Bomb explosions have rocked the cities of Nicosia, Limassol and Paphos, police have used tear gas to dispense rioting pro-enosis students, and armed followers of the general have staged daring raids to obtain weapons and explosives. The big difference is that 17 years ago, Grivas' target was the British occupying power. Today it is his former ally, Archbishop Makarios, President of independent Cyprus...
Overshadowing all of Johnson's good works, moreover, was the "brushfire" war he inherited, which soon began to breed revolt on the campuses and riots that scarred America's cities. Month after month, optimistic war bulletins from the White House were followed by news of slaughter in the field, giving birth to the "credibility gap." As Historian Eric Goldman wrote: "In his periods of triumph and of down-sweep, he stood the tragic figure of an extraordinarily gifted President who was the wrong man from the wrong place at the wrong time under the wrong circumstances...