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...inspiring beginnings, the parliament of nations at 50 has aged into such a rattletrap that its gruffest champions acknowledge design flaws. More than ever, the Secretariat appears to be a papermaking machine, the General Assembly an unwieldy debating society, and the mishmash of agencies spread around the globe a swamp into which good intentions can sink with barely a trace. Above all, the paramount U.N. duty of keeping the peace is in disgrace. All those recent ambitions of using the Security Council as the vehicle of a post-cold war new world order, with the Permanent Five members exercising...
...good-size auto plants. Much is made, and rightly so, of the thousands of black ex-criminals and drug addicts that the Muslims have helped to lead newly productive lives. But black Christian denominations have long worked similar miracles, on a larger scale, and without sinking into the swamp of ethnic scapegoating...
...AGENCY IN LONDON LAST WEEK was filming a TV commercial for Greenpeace. Directed by Hollywood horrormeister Roger Corman (A Bucket of Blood, Swamp Women), it opens with a mother beckoning to her children. At first they surround her lovingly, lavishing hugs and kisses on her. Then they turn savage, scratching and dragging her to the ground, where she is left battered and bleeding. The heavy-handed metaphor is meant to represent Mother Earth's treatment by humans, but it might just as well serve as a caution for Greenpeace itself...
What will keep today's young safe from the downward spiral--which is not only the familiar descent of children bearing children and disintegrated families and AIDS, but also the more general American sexual devolution, the swamp of the id? Basketball has lost its sublimating magic...
...Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux reservation in South Dakota, has one tiny window with a plastic pane. It is made of Sheetrock and cheap wood siding. In winter the frigid South Dakota wind tears through it like a knife. When it rains, its dirt and sawdust floor becomes a swamp. Now, in a sweltering late summer, flies swarm in and out with impunity...