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...three years are over, the United States is currently a facsimile of a liberal democracy. Rights of free speech and assembly-although subjected to increasing pressure-are still defensible and those who can muster attention and an adequate defense may still employ the tricks in our legal system to shield themselves from repression. The trial of the Chicago Eight, though disgraceful, is still a long way from the Nuremberg Trials in pre-war Germany...
...cloud technique, the ABM disperses millions of particles in the path of enemy missiles. When the rockets plunge into the atmosphere, the highly combustible bits of asphalt that they have picked up ignite from frictional heat; the asphalt burns so rapidly and creates such great temperatures that the heat shields on the ICBMs are all but consumed. Then the missiles either burn up or are so deformed that they veer off course. U.S. officials say that no heat shield now in existence could survive the fiery ride through an asphalt cloud...
...Danang, black Marines have designed a flag for black soldiers in Vietnam. A red background symbolizes blood shed by blacks in the war and in race conflict in America. A black foreground represents the face of black culture. At the center are crossed spears and shield, meaning "violence if necessary," surrounded by a wreath, symbolizing "peace if possible." The flag bears a legend in Swahili, meaning "My fear...
...vision, amid what often seems its complete transparency? What strength is there to take on so as to see oneself through dark heavy times, construction workers breaking heads in New York, ferociously coming to the defense of bourgeois systems of oppression, what strength is there that will shield the core of belief, keep one working and believing, waiting, pushing the day when some new flag will fly over the White House, and Harvard University...
Upraised Fists. The Washington experts will review race relations in all the services, but will concentrate their efforts on the 165,000-man Seventh Army, which is the U.S.'s main ground contribution to NATO's shield in Europe. Until recently, the Seventh Army has had a reputation as a highly disciplined elite unit. But during the past six months the Seventh's image has been rudely shattered by the emergence of racial invective in the barracks plus bitter, sometimes bloody strife between black and white G.I.s. In Friedberg. a mob of 25 club-swinging black G.I.s...