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...fear of not being reelected, politicians campaign nights and weekends instead of seeing their families. Wives, who quickly learn to suppress public complaints or any opinions of their own, must fight through a screen of legislative aides and political groupies to get at their husbands...
...numbers only 1000 adherents and sympathizers out of an officer corps of 28,000. The army's massive right wing is now being called upon to suppress the left, with Franco's Civil War companions leading the general staff. The politicization of the army rightward will lead to increased support for the UDM--the junior officers' organization thrives on every new abuse of the entrenched fascist generals...
...clearly the embarassments they contain could not have come at a worse time for Wilson, when he needs all the support of Labour's Old Left (Foot and others of the New Statesman set) to control the New. But Wilson gravely miscalculated his legal position when he tried to suppress the diaries by direct government interference...
...this kind of government clearly overreached itself in trying to suppress Crossman's own analysis of its inner workings. Wilson's request for an injunction was granted in November 1974 and for months constitutional lawyers worked out their arguments. The case came before England's Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery, who disposed of it fairly quickly--throwing out Wilson's case and ordering his government to pay the costs. Since Britain has an "unwritten constitution" with no Bill of Rights, this decision creates an important precedent protecting the rights of the British press. Widgery, though, tried to limit the repercussions...
Along with these basic structural changes Brownmiller insists the entire ideology of rape must be eradicated. She has launched a campaign to suppress all pornography--"the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda." Brownmiller points out that pornography is a key factor in the development of many men. It is "like rape...a male invention, designed to dehumanize women, to reduce the female to an object of sexual access..." She adds: "...hard-core pornography is not a celebration of sexual freedom; it is a cynical exploitation of female sexual activity through the device of making all such activity, and consequently...