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This belligerent attitude, founded or not, has produced a series of tactical disasters for the army. Indiscriminate army searches, groundless arrests, the use of rubber bullets, and especially the internment of political suspects (now ended)--all these have alienated the Catholic community. Whatever argument can be erected in the defense of these as military necessities, no argument can defend the general "tone" of the army's conduct in carrying them out. Despite the denials and counter-accusations, there is little doubt that the army has committed with some regularity acts of gross harassment, beatings, psychological brutalities and other rights violations...
THAT IS WHY, come Thanksgiving, all the runners will begin to return home from the Appalachian ghettoes of Cleveland, Dayton, Akron, and Detroit, from the Chevrolet assembly lines and the Goodyear rubber plants. They will pour out in their new cars, filled with their new children, to show off in front of family and old high school friends, to make the narrow mountain roads a bit more dangerous for a few days. Union Dues captures this spirit; Sayles knows, as they do, deep down, that they are interlopers almost anywhere except the hills. As for most of us, beneath their...
Quick now: Who wears $700 white suits, balloons on his head, an arrow through his skull, rabbit ears and a rubber nose and is forever afflicted by uncontrollably buck-and-winging "happy feet"? "Hey, we're havin' sommmme fuuun," he chortles. Pregnant pause. "Hey, this guy is really... crazy! By now, any halfway clued-in cultist should recognize silver-haired Steve Martin, 32, a Dadaesque philosopher turned goofball...
Frustrated because his people did not want an African colony, Leopold set up a series of cultural committees as a front and acquired personal ownership of millions of square miles of Central Africa. His agents then terrorized villages for the rubber and ivory that fetched high prices in Europe...
Last week the Supreme Soviet, Moscow's rubber-stamp parliament, unanimously approved Brezhnev's choice. He is Vasili Kuznetsov, 76, a veteran diplomat whose career peaked in 1953 when he was named Deputy Foreign Minister. He simultaneously served for two years as Moscow's Ambassador to Peking. (In the early '30s Kuznetsov earned an M.S. at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and worked in the open-hearth division of the Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, Mich.) In praising the new Vice President, Politburo Member Mikhail Suslov, 74, referred to Kuznetsov's "rich experience...