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Terrill said a new political and social vocabulary in China is necessary. "The revolution was a class struggle, but with victory, a new class system emerges. The problem is that all variations from the norm are discussed in terms of class struggle. If you lag at the factory or commit adultery, you're called a bourgeois...
...suspicion that at least one aim of the excursion was to dramatize Israel's concern about security at a time when the Begin regime is under U.S. pressure to pull out of the occupied territories elsewhere, especially in the West Bank. Israeli military men say that they had to commit such a large force?elements of two divisions, plus considerable airpower?so as to be ready to take on the Syrians if they chose to send some of the 30,000 troops they have in Lebanon into the fray on the Palestinians' side. Nonetheless, the whole operation was open...
...most tragic failure of all. The police commander at the roadblock gave a blanket open-fire order to terrified traffic cops, and their wild fusillade when the bus was finally halted probably killed more hostages than did the terrorists. Worse, it may have driven some of the terrorists to commit suicide-and to take as many passengers as possible with them. According to an intelligence report, each Palestinian commando wore an explosive belt, and he was expected to blow himself apart if capture seemed to be imminent...
Until then, the squad will enjoy the southern sun, work themselves into shape, and maybe commit a little blasphemy by knocking off some of the Dixie titans...
...wives. University of New Hampshire Sociologist Murray Straus projects an equally grim picture of this battle of the sexes. On the basis of his 1976 national survey of violence in 2,143 representative American families, he concludes that about 2 million husbands and about the same number of wives commit at least one serious attack a year on their mates. These range from kicks, bites or punches to murderous assaults with knives and other deadly weapons. Says University of Rhode Island Sociologist Richard Gelles, another student of domestic combat: "Men and women have always been equal victims in family violence...