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...largest amount of aid to Thieu's police has come openly from the Defense Department. Since the Paris treaty permits one-for-one replacement of worn-out military equipment that was in Viet Nam at the time of the truce, and since the police seem to be wearing out their supplies at a great rate, the Pentagon is shipping them Jeeps, radios and other equipment at a cost of $8.8 million this fiscal year...
...sensed by all of us; we felt a certain bond of understanding even as we repudiated his political proposals. Tom Hayden, who wrote the original SDS charter in 1962, had spent a decade patiently explaining that the American crisis demanded a radical solution, that the old worn-out liberalism had in fact sent the bombers over Vietnam. Tom Hayden worked for years in the same ghettoes through which Robert Kennedy paraded. Tom Hayden sat in a back pew in St. Patrick's cathedral during Robert Kennedy's funeral and cried...
...struggle against the bourgeoisie and revisionism, against imperialism and social imperialism, with the theoretical help of marxist-leninism and the thought of mao. But there is also at stake something new, something previously unheard of in cinema, and in this new content, we cannot be satisfied with a worn-out form. These films also struggle, ideologically, against the passivity of the spectator, as Brecht struggled in his time: because this passivity is not an aesthetic necessity as some people would have us believe (a spectator is always a spectator). It is linked to the system of representation in class society...
Donald E. Pullman, a home-improvement contractor, is facing a herculean labor. In the dead of several nights, someone dumped some 8,000 worn-out automobile tires on his one-acre building lot in Herndon, Va., near the Fairfax-Loudoun county line. The authorities threatened Pullman with a jail sentence or a $300 fine for operating an illegal dump unless he quickly got rid of them...
...that the approach was not working. They decided that Muskie must get more specific and tough. Muskie thereupon stoutly backed Florida Governor Reubin Askew's stand against the antibusing forces, opposed the space shuttle-and lost votes heavily on both issues. He bluntly attacked Wallace, calling him "a worn-out demagogue," charging that a vote for Wallace was "a vote for fear." The "message" that Floridians must send out, he argued, ought not to be "that this is where the New South died; that the party of John F. Kennedy speaks with the voice of George C. Wallace...