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Since then, the movement, which seemed the vibrant and growing expression of a nationwide cry of outrage, has become tenuous and confused. So great is our isolation, in fact, that Nixon has become convinced that we no longer exist; this isolation is largely due to the mistakes...
...Though a tenuous peace within the family still prevails, the gangs have become increasingly aggressive in their demands for change. Says Ted Gross, head of the city's youth services agency: "The thing is, you could b.s. the gangs of the '50s. Take 'em to a movie, give 'em a basketball, put 'em on a bus for the beach. But these kids today are not the 13-to 18-year-old punks of 15 years ago. They've been around. Now they're in their mid-20s and some even in their...
Earlier in the week, a smiling Bhutto had bounded into the restaurant of the Intercontinental Hotel in Rawalpindi to welcome Wali Khan to the city. After three days of talks, the two men reached an agreement that will ease the strain-at least temporarily-on the tenuous unity of Pakistan's four remaining provinces, including Wali's strongholds of Baluchistan and Northwest Frontier...
Also, Husák is engaged in a power struggle with two rivals on the Politburo, Vasil Bilàk and Alois Indra, ultra hard-liners who immediately welcomed the Soviet invasion in 1968. In order to protect his tenuous position, Husák may have been forced to order the arrests...
COLES APPRECIATES the complexity of the tenuous adjustments that America's poor have made to adapt to their circumstances, he can sense and has seen the trauma that accompanies any transformation in the order of things. The South Goes North is testament to such trauma. From cloistered universities, it is easy to support busing of schoolchildren; Coles has ridden the buses and knows busing is not an unadulterated good. Academic radicals support community organizing; Coles has talked to people in the communities and knows how firmly the existing order of things is ingrained in people and why change is difficult...