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Whatever the solution, the question for Americans is not what's wrong with the police, but what citizens can do to help. For all its Birchite origin, there is no real alternative to the right-wing slogan, "Support your local police." In its proper definition, support would mean paying higher taxes for higher wages to attract better policemen, and for modern equipment to match modern tasks. It would also mean a constant concern for constitutional rights-and utmost respect for the cop who guards freedom as zealously as he upholds order...
...whose body was said to bear the stigmata, or the wounds inflicted on Christ during his passion; of a heart attack; in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. Blood first appeared on his hands, feet and side 50 years ago and, though the Vatican never officially considered his wounds of divine origin, Pio (born Francesco Forgione) attracted millions of pilgrims who came to his monastery in San Giovanni in hopes of seeing...
...Basque language [Sept. 6] has intrigued me ever since I heard of Maurice Ravel's pride in his ability to speak this mysterious tongue. But there now exists a work which offers an explanation of its origin that is as intriguing as the former mystery: Dravidian Origins and the West, by N. Lahovary. The author offers phonetic, lexical and morphological evidence for close links between the Basque language and Dravidian, an Indian language. He concludes that these languages are members of an ancient pre-Hamito-Semitic family whose single origin and single center of diffusion is the Near East...
...young rabbis are campus radicals, and few members of Students for a Democratic Society have much use for organized religion. Nonetheless, many of the nation's most vocal young protesters are of Jewish origin. A survey conducted by the American Jewish Committee in San Francisco last year found that 30% of Haight-Ashbury's hippies were Jewish. The Hillel Foundations, campus arm of B'nai B'rith, concluded that Jewish students made up one-third of last spring's Columbia protesters...
...Hitler rose to power in Germany, the Germans in Czechoslovakia saw a redeemer who would bring them home. Hitler was delighted to oblige. He charged that the country's citizens of German origin were being mistreated and must have his protection. Benes, who by then had succeeded Masaryk as President, needed international support in order to stand up to Hitler...