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Early last Monday, death emerged from the wilderness. Deep in the park's misty hills, a band of more than 100 Rwandan Hutu guerrillas, driven into a fury by months of fighting in the ruleless Congo, turned on a group of Western tourists, killing eight (see following story). For the outside world, it was a vivid reminder of the terror that still grips the heart of Africa...
Riesman believes that in each of the three historical kinds of character direction, some men will adjust, some will fail to adjust and some will rise above adjustments. Those who fail he calls anomic (ruleless, directionless); the years of transition between two kinds of direction (inner and other) will produce many anomics. Those who transcend adjustment he calls autonomous. Their social radar is good and they use it when they choose; but they can turn it off and develop the ability to make choices out of their own individuality...
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