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...that is the aim, the campaign is a long way from success. Largely because of Chou's leadership, since the Tenth Party Congress last August, membership in the Politburo is stable for the first time in nearly a decade. The power of independent military commanders in the provinces was curbed by a shuffle of command posts late in January. Moreover, several dozen formerly discredited cadres who owe their allegiance to Chou have quietly been brought back into important government positions. Chou himself put on an impressive display of party unity recently when he appeared at a banquet for visiting...
...Marines, the ad fosters the exaltation of a virility equated with violence that helped make possible the Indochina war, as well as such comparatively minor evils as the discrimination to which women and homosexuals are subject in this country. And by its substance, by its offer of command and eventual power in an organization whose recent activities have involved carrying out an illegitimate foreign policy in an indefensible way, the ad fosters the public passivity that lets the United States continue to finance the Indochina war and encourages it to further repression elsewhere...
Springfield took command in the third period as the Chiefs opened up with a 6-1 spurt. However, the determined Crimson fought back to deadlock the score...
...takes a pamphlet from his bookshelf and begins reading a passage from the Rhodesian criminal code: "Anyone is guilty of a criminal offense if he is absent from the farm during working hours, if he becomes intoxicated, if he refuses to obey any command of a master..." The list goes on. The punishment for such offenses ranges from caning and thrashing to two or three months in prison. Anyone unemployed for more then 30 days is also a criminal, subject to work on a farm for three months without pay, to receive "training" in such skills as digging ditches...
Shortly before noon one day last week, startled soldiers of the battle-tested Egyptian Second Army intercepted an Israeli bus that had broached their perimeter near the Suez Canal. While troops in command cars trained machine guns on the vehicle, an Egyptian colonel boarded it and discovered that his men had just captured, of all people, 28 prosperous young American business and professional men who were on a United Jewish Appeal fund-raising tour...