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...review of 1968's mail, TIME'S letter writers found that it was largely concerned with the more serious news-Viet Nam, the capture of the Pueblo, politics at home and abroad, student protest, urban unrest, assassination. In other years, readers seemed more concerned with lighter stories. In 1967 the article that drew the most mail was the cover story about Playboy's Hugh Hefner; in 1968, it was the cover that reported on the violence at the Democratic Convention in Chicago...
Still, there is no precedent in Czechoslovakia for Palach's attempt to provoke unrest by the deliberate, fiery kind of self-destruction that Buddhists used in South Viet Nam, and the first appalled reaction was to dismiss his act as the product of a deranged mind...
...between Protestants and Catholics-especially in the capital of Belfast -have drawn enough Irish temper from both sides to make "Belfast confetti" a second name for paving stones. During the past five months, the bitterness has erupted almost weekly in a wave of demonstrations, street riots and vigilantism. The unrest has presented the country's moderate Prime Minister, Captain Terence O'Neill, with his toughest problem and most serious political challenge in six years...
...dull; he calls himself a "provisional Prime Minister" in jest, but Frenchmen have begun to agree. Debre is losing favor with De Gaulle because he is lukewarm toward the President's plans for decentralizing government. Education Minister Edgar Faure has lost stature as a result of continuing student unrest; last week rioters from the Lycee Saint Louis in Paris temporarily seized the Sorbonne, and at the new University of Vincennes agitators had to be driven out by police using tear...
...examine Ford's four circles or unrest, you will not that there are very prominent gaps in the program of the so-called "wreckers." Apparently we want to destroy for the sake of desruction, or else we want some ill-defined revolution. Since it is true that revolution is not one interest or value among others, then those of us whom he would place in the fourth circle appear to outsiders to have no definite program of interests. In this light, our concern for the interests of others is merely a ruse for the furtherance of our own revolutionary ends...