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...always in the future. "The real opposite of nostalgic," he says, "is psychedelic, the reverse of remembering is hallucinating, which means that, insofar as the New Western is truly New, it, too, must be psychedelic." So the Red Man reappears, bearing his gifts of marijuana and peyote that threaten 20th century values in much the same way as the white man's whisky threatened the Indian way of life. The New West then is not a place but a state of altered consciousness, a kind of new frontier of madness...
Long said the ambassador often pointed his finger "belligerently" during the hour-long talk and once commented, "If you are pure Vietnamese, you would not draw up a statement like this." Then, Long said, "he began to threaten. He said, 'Of course, you are now in a free country, and can say what you like. But remember the consequences on the people you love and like...
...Committee must consider whether this country would appear ludicrous condemning South Africa's policies in light of the recently-published Riot Commission report: "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white--separate and unequal . . . Discrimination and segregation have long permeated much of American life; they now threaten the future of every American." There is a difference, of course; one nation enforces its discrimination and the other condemns it. Perhaps the United States could acknowledge its shame while blasting the South Africans. But, of course, it should not come to this, because the Olympics are not the place...
Permitting some local independence will not threaten the ultimate power of the central authorities. By giving low-level cadre and involved peasants a sense of participation, decentralization identifies them more closely with the regime. Among a populace traditionally powerless, a little authority goes a long way in this direction...
Unlike insecticides, the study finds, the defoliant herbicides do not concentrate in animal tissue. As a result, dangerous effects on animals and humans are "unlikely." But temporary defoliation over widespread areas could threaten the existence of some animal species that depend on foliage for food and concealment and are already close to extinction. One of these is the douc langur, a colorful monkey that lives almost entirely on leaves. Also endangered are the Indo-Chinese gibbon and the rare kouprey, a remnant of a mid-Miocene ancestor of modern cattle...