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...serious flooding problems, but the town disagreed and several years later began building a small dike system funded by local assessments and general taxes. By 1965, Crookston had 2.8 miles of new dikes, which cost nearly $63,000. The investment paid off immediately. The flood four years ago -the worst in a century-caused only $80,000 in damage, one-twentieth of the cost in 1950. Further improvements were made after 1965. Still, when the crisis came this spring, it was not the dikes but the people that made the difference...
...fashion as much as it can be used as a smoke screen to erode radical stands. In view of the student interest that the issue kindled, SDS ought to have taken care to put forward its own position on the matter and attempted to work on the problem. The worst possible tactic, the one that was followed by SDS, was to treat the restructuring issue with steely and stubborn indifference. And yet, as long as SDS does look on itself as an insulated and pure force, relatively unconcerned with the number of people supporting, it, and not interested in actively...
When the big riots broke out last month, Ayub may have wished that he had jailed Bhashani anyway. Operating apparently on Chinese orders to start a Maoist revolt, Bhashani's well-trained party workers led some of the worst rampaging, in which hundreds of people, including a dozen minor officials, were murdered and many houses burned down. Bhashani shrugs off the violence as "male-ganimat," or retribution, which is condoned by the Koran...
Again and again, you say, "the American people want" or "demand" or "insist." How do you know? Every poll I have seen puts your position in a minority. You just say, "the American people demand"--then add whatever you prefer. This is intellectually sloppy at best, and corrupt at worst...
...EVENTS of the last five days have left the majority of the Harvard community confused and dismayed. The SDS tactic was repulsive, the violent police raid used to defeat it even more disgusting, but worst of all is the prespect that the University is now splitting so violently that its survival is endangered. The temptation for moderates to despair and give up politically is overwhelming, but this is precisely the time when they must not quit as a political force...