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Your cover picture of worries is preposterous without a large segment labeled HOSTAGES...
...expired at the end of June. Now the General Accounting Office has recommended a new ban, and pressure for legislation is building. The House last week held hearings on foreign bank activities in the U.S. Critics argue that it is risky to let non-Americans absorb too large a segment of domestic banking. They contend that foreign-owned banks may not always cooperate with U.S. monetary policies to dampen inflation or prop up the dollar, particularly if the home country disapproves. Warns New York Congressman Benjamin Rosenthal: "The present open door to foreign interests is a dangerous and unwise policy...
Harvard put the match away early, winning at all six singles spots and allowing Coach Peter Felske to give varsity experience to some newcomers in the doubles segment...
William E. McKibben's article "View From the Fringe" (Crimson, 22 Sept.) was basically a liberal's attempt to equate the far left and the far right as members of the so-called unrealistic fringe, hated by a "good segment of society." This equation is the same methodology which led the bourgeois press to characterize the KKK's cold-blooded murder of five anti-Klan militants in Greensboro, North Carolina, as simply a "shootout" between two "violence-prone extremist groups...
EVERYONE TALKS contemptuously about radicals, repeating something someone once told them about how the far left is just like the far right. There are some similarities--neither the RCP nor the Klan is particularly realistic, and both are hated by a good segment of society--often the same segment. But the differences are much more important--the Klan member wants for himself; the revolutionary communist, however screwed up, wants for others. The Klan has a vision of the past, the RCP of the future. People can be excused for their fantasies about the future, for no proof exists that they...