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...ethnic identity on the other. Precariously balanced between cultures, the Portuguese are forced to walk a tightrope of assimilation over an ethnic no-man's land. While the Portuguese have become increasingly aware of the tangible rewards for ethnic awareness, the forces of assimilation into American society still threaten to engulf them...
...Secretary of the Army from 1971 to 1973. Froehlke said he had opposed amnesty when the U.S. was still fighting. Now that the war is over, he passionately pleaded, amnesty is an "act that only a strong, confident and just nation can bestow. You cannot demand amnesty. You cannot threaten amnesty. Amnesty is given. The insecure, the mean, the confused cannot grant amnesty. Now is the time to begin mending the heartbreak and wounds left...
...another threat has arisen. Since last fall a murky little war that pits the Burmese army against a large-scale offensive by a resurgent Burma Communist Party has been raging in the northeast. It is the largest rebellion to threaten Burma since the country gained its independence from Britain...
...chorus of mournful noise is issuing from the cattle-feeding pens of Colorado, Texas and the Middle West-and not just from the steers awaiting slaughter. The feed-lot operators are moaning too, because a consumer rebellion against beef and soaring costs of fattening cattle threaten to trim their profits to the bone. Says an official of the Colorado Cattlemen's Association: "A lot of boys are going to belly...
...present, however, this radical fringe is only a minor worry for Friedan. Of greater importance to her are the predictions of an imminent economic recession which will threaten the progress that women have made up to date...