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...forces that appear to be menacing. Crime, in particular, has disrupted Jewish life in the cities, where most Jews continue to live. When they demand law and order, they are not speaking in code but citing sheer need. Always sensitive to outside slights and attacks, Jews are now more vehement in their own defense. As White House Aide Pat Buchanan rather bluntly put it: "The Jews have started to react to social engineering the way other ethnics have. They're protective of their turf...
Ecologist Barry Commoner, a vehement foe of mindless growth, considers Meadows' treatment of pollution "quite simplistic." It assumes that more growth inevitably means more pollution. Yet the alarming rise in pollution, says Commoner, has been caused not by growth per se but by changes in the composition of growth-for example, the postwar shifts from soaps to detergents. Shifting back to cleaner (and costlier) products and techniques could decrease pollution much more than the Meadows team foresees, while permitting output to continue rising. In essence, the Meadows team projected current trends into the future without analyzing how man might...
Alternatively, the European governments could clamp tighter controls on currency exchanges and capital movements, mostly in an attempt to keep out dollars, which Common Market countries hold far in excess of their needs. That step is favored by France's Giscard, a vehement opponent of currency flotations. This might quiet the markets, but it would constitute a partial reversal of the post-World War II trend toward freer movement of goods and money across national borders. Some combination of floats and controls is also possible...
Today, the black American counts the Africans as his brothers. The black American calls for a truer expression of historical and ethnic relatedness between himself and the African. This demand for historical and ethnic roots, and the vehement quest of identity requires a deep and vital interest in the social and cultural sources of Black America. Americans of other ethnic descent, while still remaining hundred per cent Americans, are proud of their ancestral traditions, and acknowledge them freely. The black American, while also insisting on remaining American, is now beginning to acknowledge his African heritage, and seeks with enthusiasm knowledge...
Some of the most vehement parental critics in California banded together in an organization called the Parents' Committee to Free Our Children from the Children of God-a movement that has since spread to other parts of the country. The parents' group charges, among other things, that the Children stoop to kidnaping, hypnotizing and even drugging to keep youngsters in the sect. The outcry has driven many of the Children from California; Ted Patrick, a San Diego aide to Governor Ronald Reagan, has accused them of trying to "destroy the United States...