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Johnson also tried to downplay the tasteless wrangle he has been having with Michigan Governor George Romney over the introduction of federal troops in Detroit. Romney last week accused Johnson of having "played politics in a period of tragedy and despair." The President at first let Attorney General Ramsey Clark deny the charge, but later, Johnson himself explained the intricacies of ordering federal troops into a local situation. Romney seemed to come out ahead. Opinion samplings by the market research firm of Sindlinger & Co. indicated that Romney's popularity in Michigan exceeded Johnson's after the riot. Nationwide...
...Again he deplored the breakdown of law and order, warning rioters that "explanations may be offered, but nothing can excuse what they have done. The violence must be stopped: quickly, finally, and permanently." But he also pleaded for "an attack-mounted at every level-upon the conditions that breed despair and violence." There is no other way, he said, to achieve a "decent and orderly society...
...first collection of stories in 17 years read like obituaries of the soul. His characters, robbed of purpose, their spirits rubbed flat, move zombielike through exquisitely desolate landscapes -Moroccan ghettos, Algerian deserts, New York subway tunnels. Displaced in the present, they have vague pasts and menacing futures; sighing despair, they search for something unnameable...
...best, Bowles has no peer in his sullen art, and he offers here two superb stories of despair that prove it. One, The Frozen Fields, shows how a father's hostility slowly corrodes the brain of a small boy. The other, Tapia-ma, follows an American photographer to the end of his skid. It is a masterwork on the psychology of the dropout, an exemplary model of existentialism in the service of fiction. Utterly bored, the photographer drifts through Latin America and slips into drunkenness at a sinister plantation bar. Unconsciously, he falls victim to conspiracy, accident, destruction. "What...
...different ways. With one quarter of New York City's population, for example, Los Angeles averages more than three times as many drunk arrests-100,000 a year. Yet, as the presidential commission sees it, arresting drunks is fruitless anywhere. Not only do "revolving-door jails" intensify the despair that drives men to drink in the first place; they also compound the police problem. In Washington, D.C., a survey turned up six chronic offenders who had been arrested a total of 1,409 times and served a collective 125 years in jail. In Los Angeles, 20% of drunk arrests...