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...miles south of Buenos Aires. A federal judge watched impassively and policemen stood at a respectful distance as the workers unearthed the remains of 15 bodies and carefully placed them in brown plastic bags. The hands of all but one of the corpses had been cut off, apparently to thwart later identification...
...separation. Blacks will be secure enough in their identify--racial, cultural, or otherwise--so that Black tables will not be necessary to develop the sense of "being Black." While there is nothing wrong with Black tables as expressions of cultural solidarity, when they become ends in themselves, they thwart the purpose for which they originally appeared...
...building, and banned sightseers from the immediate vicinity of the congressional chambers. Soon staffers will need photo identification passes, and tourists will be obliged to remove their overcoats for a spot check and marched through a sophisticated metal detector. Outside, parking-lot traffic may be rerouted to thwart car bombers, like the one who destroyed the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut...
...like Poland or Afghanistan, why not concentrate on these places first? The problem, of course, is the inference of Soviet control. If Qaddafi or the Sandinistas or the Angolan leadership or the Syrians really are the equivalent of the Afghan puppet regime or the Polish dictatorship, then how to thwart or evict them becomes are reasonable question. If, however, they are involved with--but not controlled by--the Soviet Union, then confrontation may drive them irreversibly into the Soviet camp. Consider, for example, Fider Castro...
...auditorium, stadium, or lab expansion. In those extraordinary cases. Friends could help raise money to supplement regular education allocations. Some restrictions might be needed to limit any disparities arising from the varying wealth of communities. Without such provisions, wealthy communities could easily satiate their own educational appetites and thwart efforts to raise taxes for less prosperous areas. Executed fairly, a Friends system could increase all taxpayers support for education through a heightened awareness of school needs...