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Also I did not take the "union to task for 'feeding the racists' by failing to achieve complete solidarity in the strike." Rather I criticized the union leadership for policies--"neutrality" on busing and a one year delay of Phase 2--which serve the racists and threaten black-white unity in this immediate struggle and are obstacles to the development of a common struggle of the labor movement and oppressed minorities against all the government cutbacks and layoffs affecting working people in this period of capitalist austerity. Robert Pearlman
...Government law officials say that it would be next to impossible to charge Good with a crime for what she was saying last week. Under federal conspiracy laws, someone must perform an overt illegal act before he can be arrested, and under federal extortion laws, a person has to threaten to carry out a crime himself before he can be charged. Good's communiques have said that the attacks would be made by a second party, the International People's Court of Retribution...
There is some perversity in using language to desiccate, rather than to enrich, and some danger. The risk Kosinski takes is like the risk Beckett and Barth took; the barrenness of his words and of his landscapes threaten to consume the whole. A Literature of Desolation that engenders only desolate novels is, to say the least, self-defeating...
...whose wife has run off with her psychiatrist. Woebegone even at the best of times, the salesman is having one of his worse days. He decides to commit suicide. Of course, he bungles the job. He bungles everything. His suicidal impulses impinge on Ventura's concentration, eventually even threaten his mission...
...than the mayor admitted. A pipe bomb filled with black powder exploded on the front porch of Alioto's home in the exclusive Presidio Heights district. Alioto's wife Angelina was at home but was not hurt. A note left on the porch read: "Don't threaten us." The mayor announced that he felt that striking policemen were not implicated in the incident, and he resisted pleas that he call in the National Guard...