Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city's legitimate black leaders, he is the most aggressive in presenting grievances against ghetto schools; he is the most strident in denouncing racism. So rough-spoken has he been at times that the city administration has asked New Detroit to curb him. His defenders say that his manner is necessary for his effectiveness. "The white people who work privately with him say he is cooperative and constructive," says the community relations director of one automobile manufacturer. The ministers who brought Ditto to Detroit support his tactics. Says a black former Salvation Army officer, the Rev. Bob Baldwin...
...three weeks, would turn out to be a debacle for the Soviets. Never has the Communist movement been in greater disarray. Once the undisputed fountainhead of Communism, Moscow has seen many parties grow distant and independent and others turn violently against Soviet primacy. It is not too much to say that the Russians can now command unquestioning obedience only in those countries where their soldiers can enforce...
...Marx, many Communists have changed their tactics. Accepting the rules of the political game in their countries, the reformers vow to seek power only by legal means. If they ever get into it, they promise, they will reform the society, not violently tear it down. They will, so they say, respect civil rights and freedom of the press while bringing about a more equitable distribution of wealth. Some Western European reformers even envisage allowing political opposition. It is a notion that outrages orthodox Communists, who insist above all on the paramount control of the party...
...society, Marxism's "laws" have been mocked by events, such as the increasing prosperity of the workers and the near disappearance of cyclical economic crisis. As a political movement and myth, it has been far more successful. Regimes calling themselves Marxist (and who has a right to say they are not?) rule a third of mankind. Their future expansion, while not as likely as it seemed 20 years ago, is by no means impossible. But neither failed Marxist theory nor entrenched Marxist power explains why Marxism can today provide slogans for the uproar in U.S. colleges and ghettos, courage...
...necessary. If the Arabs try to stop us, we will simply go underground and continue fighting. We will not accept anything less than return to Palestine." In the Middle East, where overblown rhetoric is a way of life, the fedayeen give every indication of meaning exactly what they say...