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...same conclusion, reached after every post-assassination national self-analysis, is as valid???and unsatisfying?as ever; there is no way to be certain that some frustrated eccentric, determined enough or lucky enough, cannot succeed in his intent to kill. But the acts of Squeaky Fromme and Sally Moore serve as a painful reminder that reasonable steps should be taken to reduce the danger...
...impersonal, Kafkaesque institutions. At a time when more and more citizens are questioning the degree to which they control their own destinies, the military, with its rigid hierarchy, its demand for total obedience, and above all, its tropistic reaching-out for ever more armaments, is an obvious?and perhaps valid???target. An increasing number of officers, to be sure, are getting broad educations and display considerable political and social sensitivity. Still, the military as a whole, with its tendency toward stiffness and even narrowness, rarely copes well with the challenge of dissent. Thus, a military court meted out what seemed...
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