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...current situation, in fact, can be traced to the years immediately following World War II. After the war, the British-to whom Greece had fallen as a "sphere of influence" -disarmed the Communist-dominated resistance movement which had fought against the Nazi occupation and reinstated the royalist government under King Paul. As a bloody civil war raged throughout the country, the U.S. supplanted the British and formulated the Truman Doctrine as its policy line. Effectively undercutting a U.N. investigation of the Greek conflict, the Truman Doctrine placed the United States and its allies firmly behind any scheme-however dictatorial...
...Amendment ban against governmental "establishment of religion." It does so, they said, by favoring denominations that preach total pacifism while penalizing others that oppose only unjust wars. Speaking for the court majority, Justice Thurgood Marshall noted that the establishment clause requires that "when government activities touch on the religious sphere, they must be secular in purpose, evenhanded in operation and neutral in primary impact." By exempting objectors to all wars, Marshall held, Congress properly focused on individual consciences, not sectarian affiliations. It also avoided administrative chaos, which would have deepened "bitterness and cynicism" among draftees. How, for example, could...
...Cooling of America" raised hopes in my expatriate circles. Maybe, we thought, the dawn was breaking for true involvement, for serious discussion, for an end to sloganeering. But there remains this deep dilemma: while the country cools in a political sense, it continues running hot in the sphere of personal safety. We are disheartened by the cold facts that show crime rates climbing up and up, as unstoppable as the worst type of cancer. It is hopeless, hopeless, hopeless...
...athletic sphere, what other school of our size can you think of that does not have an auditorium with the capacity to hold a "crowd" of over 2,000 people. This inadequacy leaves the student with no concerts and a Teach-In that is witnessed by one-fifth of the people that were genuinely interested. Thus a new athletic complex would serve a dual purpose...
...pose another problem. "You use the same kind of plumbing," says Kahn, "but it's difficult to get a shape that works with the rest of the geometry." For this reason, several builders have erected domes that are three-quarters or seven-eighths (instead of half) of a sphere. That enables the dome dwellers to live in an uncluttered, unpartitioned hemisphere with enough space below the main living level for bathroom and storage facilities. Conventionally designed doors and windows pose aesthetic difficulties: the traditional right-angled shapes do not fit gracefully into a dome's curves. Thus triangular...