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According to Kirkpatrick Sale, Johnson's scatological hijinks can be explained in terms of a structure of economic and political power that has arisen in the United States since World War II. This structure, which Sale refers to as "The Southern Rim," has a character, morality, culture and interests distnct from those of the Eastern Establishment, dividing the nation into "rimsters," or "cowboys," and "yankees." Sporadically, this tension bursts into the open, as it did in the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy '40 and in the drive to impeach Richard Nixon...
...lambeg drummer used canes instead of drumsticks and during the course of a single parade, he'd break more than ten of them. That's because the drummer hits the drum as hard as he can. In the process, he hits his knuckles against the edge of the rim. By the end of a march, the drummer's hands would be dripping with blood, and sometimes mangled. But lambegs slowed up the parade, and now only one band in all of Ireland uses them...
Also in Canada, but considerably easier to reach, is the fine West Coast Hiking Trail on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, a cannon shot from Washington State across the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Still being developed as part of Canada's newly dedicated Pacific Rim National Park, the 22 miles now open are equipped with suspension bridges over ravines, cable cars across two river canyons and a boardwalk along the rougher sections. At one point, the only way to cross the Nitnat Narrows is by dugout canoe, handled by Nitnat Indians who charge $2 for the ride...
...much as for anything else, that its defense requires a military presence in the passes. Jerusalem suggested a partial pullout and electronic surveillance on either side, a proposal Sadat rejected. The agreement being hammered out last week would allow Israeli troops to remain in brigade strength on the eastern rim of the passes; thus both sides could argue that their conditions had been met. At issue was where on the slopes of the passes the Solomonic lines should be drawn between the Israeli brigades and the U.N. forces that would hold the passes as a demilitarized zone...
...decades American investment in the Far East has benefited from a strong U.S. military presence. Confident that their invested dollars were reasonably secure, American corporations have poured in excess of $1 billion since 1964 into new electronic, car assembly and other manufacturing and distributing facilities all along the Pacific rim of Asia. The outlay contributed to rapid economic growth rates-more than 10% in South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines in 1973-and also to soaring overseas profits for both the multinational companies that pumped in the money and the banks that financed them. Now, in the wake...