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...aware that some problems cannot be solved overnight. CAMBODIA/KENT STATE. The protests last May unified moderate students, who until then had been a kind of silent majority. This had the effect of isolating the radicals, who, in the absence of a restraining force, had previously operated as the vanguard of the student movement. Cambodia/Kent State also opened new lines of communication within universities. For the first time in years, students, faculty and administrators agreed on a major issue. Formalized by new devices like campus ombudsmen and rumor-control centers, the new intimacy strengthened many an institution. LAW-AND-ORDER...
...eating soul foods, the hardhats feast on as much red meat as they can afford, and the white-collar liberals seem to be keeping down their cholesterol with chicken and veal. The youth of Woodstock Nation? With almost religious zeal, they are becoming vegetarians. They are also in the vanguard of the flourishing organic-food movement, insisting on produce grown without chemical fertilizers or pesticides...
...WHEEL OF LOVE AND OTHER STORIES by Joyce Carol Oates. 440 pages. Vanguard...
Ph.D.s' Dream World. These specialists are the vanguard of an army that seems sure to grow. Pentagon Comptroller Robert Moot last week told defense manufacturers that the annual rate of new contract awards fell from a peak of $42.3 billion in 1968 to $34.4 billion in June, and will drop to $28 billion by next June...
...fedayeen fragmented, fought among themselves and began menacing the governments of Jordan and Lebanon in particular, Arab rulers began to squirm. Hussein once declared, "We are all fedayeen," but he finally mustered his army to chastise the movement. Egypt's Nasser in other days hailed the fedayeen as "the vanguard of the Arab revolution." Now, worried that the guerrillas' romantic image may be undercutting his own, Nasser ventures fewer and fewer encouraging words...