Word: unpopularities
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Bombs are still falling, people are still dying, but already nobody cares. Visitors to Vietnam this summer repot that Thieu seems to have the country under control. When American troops and even planes are no longer needed, when only American money is required to back up a corrupt and unpopular government, when no American blood is demanded to dominate a small, oppressed nation--when the American war has ended and only American repression remains, who will remember...
This theme of "impersonal warfare" was stressed throughout the first day of hearings. Eric Herter, VVAW coordinator for the three-day investigation, said in his opening remarks that "We have been participants in the new forms of war which are to replace the unpopular struggle of infantry patrol against guerilla band. Replace it with a greater atrocity than a hundred My Lais--the systematic destruction of thousands of innocent persons, of entire cultures by an automated electronic and mechanical death machine whose killing will be one-sided, unseen, and universal...
...proposed delay in pay raises for federal white collar employees scheduled for Jan. 1. Under federal law, a vote against the measure by either house would frustrate Nixon's hope of reducing the current fiscal budget by $1.3 billion. Because the delay in salary raises is politically unpopular, the job of ramming it through Congress, says House G.O.P. Leader Jerry Ford, "is going to be tough...
...someone who is prosecuted or jailed-not for crimes in the ordinary sense of the word, but for harboring or expressing opinions antagonistic to an established order of government. There is no question that the U.S. has a long and frequently dishonorable history of persecuting its citizens who hold unpopular opinions. The record reaches back past the Joseph McCarthy era to Sacco and Vanzetti, the Palmer raids, the Wobblies, and the Haymarket trial of 1887. There is also the ambiguous case of the Utah Mormons, who were persecuted in the late 19th century for the "crime" of practicing polygamy, then...
...change? Brown suggests that "society no longer rewards people for sexual individuality." Being male, he says, can mean being assassinated, as it meant for such strong male figures as John and Robert Kennedy. Or it can lead to death in the unpopular war in Viet Nam. Other anti-male influences, says Brown, are the belittling of fathers and husbands on TV, the blurring of sex distinctions in family life, and "a widespread cynicism about romantic love...