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Similarly, while the Young Democrats wither in apathy, the HYRC's major burden is its gold; with membership twice that of five years ago, the Executive Committee is now considering investing its excess revenue in speculative stocks. In an abortive revolt against the "machine at the annual election in March the main complaint of the rebels was that the club leaders had in effect fulfilled their agencies too well and too efficiently. "We've been terrorized and sherryized," was the wail...
...Review articles on Egypt, Iraq, and Turkey deal with situations found in many developing countries. John E. Lawrence '63 discusses Nasser's pragmatic ideology; John L. Simmons '63 describes the problems which have held up land reform in Iraq, and Richard D. Robinson describes the Turkish revolt against the Menderes government...
These articles discuss doctrines of Arab Socialism as described in the Egyptian Constitution of 1956, describe in some detail the land reform programs in Iraq before and after Kassim's revolt, and list problems which the Second Turkish Republic has faced in attempting to remedy the abuses for which it executed Menderes. Each of these articles has some merit, but none of them is either well-written or particularly searching in its analysis...
Various studies have portrayed the unemployed man as confused, panicky, prone to suicide, mayhem and revolt. Totalitarian regimes seem to know what unemployment can mean: they never permit...
...Deong begins to talk like a Communist agent ("Cuba is what you made it! . . . We don't want tanks from Wall Street!"). Brando sees red and decides Deong really must be one. With Washington's approval the ambassador launches a political offensive which backfires. Deong, driven to revolt, makes common cause with the Communists and overwhelms the rightist regime supported by the U.S. But on the eve of victory, Deong is assassinated by his Communist allies. Only Marlon Brando now stands between Southeast Asia and Mao's hordes...