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...Third World governments use a variety of names for their emergency powers. The Philippines has had full martial law since 1972, when President Ferdinand Marcos arrested hundreds of opponents and began to rule by decree. Marcos recently told a group of international lawyers that his people were more concerned about food than freedom anyway. "The bottom line of that argument," observes New York University Law School Professor Thomas Franck, "is that the suspension of political rights is a way to increase economic rights." So far, martial law has kept Marcos in power and accomplished not a great deal more...
...third, and most important, aspect of the revolt is that it is aimed at what people see as forms of unfairness in American life. This is where the rebellion's real power lies. Says Yankelovich: "When people begin to resent what they regard as unfair, it generates the kind of emotion that gets some people elected and others thrown out of office...
Before returning to Washington, Carter attended a Democratic fund-raising luncheon where he predicted Congress will approve a $25 billion tax cut this year. He also attacked the Republican Kemp-Roth plan that would slash income taxes by one-third...
...minute later, Harvard had a chance with a corner kick, but it was headed away and the Engineers broke up field for one more goal against a thoroughly humiliated Crimson. Adding insult to injury, Michael Raphael popped in the third goal with 7 seconds left in the game...
...airplanes, consumer markets and anything else that is a product of modern society. Second, MOVE is not proto-typically radical. They hate capitalism, but they also hate socialist governments that also believe in the worth of science and industry. They only incidentally harp about class conflict and proletarian oppression. Third, the group is revolutionary. Although they despise cities, they feel a moral obligation to stay in the urban centers and fight what they construe to be the enemy. MOVE members say they will eventually head for the halcyon hills, but only after the war is won. Fourth, the group...