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...word these days is "rectification"-Peking's euphemism for cooling it. As the Maoists put it ponderously in their New Year's editorial, the annual policy guideline for the coming year: "Alongside the rectification of the party organization, the Young Communist Youth League, the Red Guards and various revolutionary mass organizations should be rectified ideologically and organizationally." That was one of only two references in the 3,000-word document to the once all-important Red Guards. For all official purposes, the Red Guards have vanished as thoroughly as Mrs. Mao. Hardly a red armband has been seen...
Once the conspiracy has been proved, all of the various participants can be held responsible for anything that any one of them may have done in furtherance of the conspiracy. This is particularly valuable in organized-crime cases. When Lucky Luciano was convicted for compulsory prostitution in the '30s, for instance, he was guilty in part because of conspiracy. In a case like the Spock-Coffin indictment, the Government also does not need to prove an endless list of isolated charges. Instead, says Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, "it would like to paint the picture of a widespread agreement...
...control which "foreign systems" achieve by means of coercion. Still quoting the SSS's own document: their goal is to make the individual feel as if he is "standing in a room which has been made uncomfortably warm (i.e. hot). Several doors are open, but they all lead to various forms of recognized, patriotic service to the Nation...
...asked about a memorandum he had issued, which offered to make available to seniors information on ROTC at various graduate formation for all sides in a very schools. He said that "we have inskeletal form," adding that his office has American Friends Service Committee handbooks in its library, "which nobody reads...
...bureaucratic loyalty of these administrators is to Washington, not to Ecuador. Therefore, the only way to harness the institution's arrogance is to change the organization substantially; to create bureaucratic situations where administrative power is shared by representatives of various societies: where the interplay of their differing interests produces truly flexible programs that can be transferred from culture to culture, rather than imposed by one culture on another...