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...America. Within each constituency, voters repeat their candidate's themes and even rhetoric with a precision that is sometimes eerie. A one-word common denominator prevails in the Nixonian America: the sense of "system." The free enterprise system, the law-and-order system, even the "family unit" system???they are the recurring images among Nixon supporters. Their antonym is "chaos," not Utopia. They are apprehensive of the disorders that the late '60s adumbrated to them, the turmoils that they suspect a McGovern accession might bring...
...Rubenstein of Chicago's Roosevelt University: "It might be easy in a mechanical way to screw up the system???forcing the airlines to spend millions on armed guards, or to mess up the electrical or telephone systems. But what's wrong with the new terror is that it is creating social chaos without at the same time preparing people for a new order." Implicitly, at least, the Maoists, the radical separatists in Quebec, the Naxalites in India, the Weathermen and Panthers in the U.S. all share the spirit of anarchism: its fascination with violence, its chaotic organization, its insistence...
...possibility of a shortage of money to use in financing its rapidly growing international trade and investment, partly because it has leaned too heavily on a couple of powerful currencies. The result is the loudest clamor in 20 years for a reform and updating of the world's monetary system???that motley of treaties and gentlemanly agreements through which the major nations have agreed to finance their commerce with one another...
...printed with the test: sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of the test, entering the number of right answers as your score on the answer sheet. The test is given under the honor system???no peeking...
...test is given under the honor system???no peeking...