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...death or life of the movement." It could also mean life imprisonment for the defendants, the maximum penalty for conspiracy to kidnap. The trial will doubtless turn into a showcase for the Berrigans' ideas, particularly with Kunstler aiding the defense. Kunstler has already assumed his customary belligerent political stance. "We have to speak to the larger issues," says one alleged coconspirator...
...long Chile's popularity will last is uncertain. Santiago would doubtless rate more stars than Havana in any Bakuninist Baedeker. The four Quebec terrorists who were flown to the Cuban capital last month in exchange for the release of British Trade Commissioner James Cross were grousing about their future in Castro's hardscrabble country even before they arrived. Still, Chile is not even trying to match the amenities available in Algeria, where President Houari Boumedienne provides visiting revolutionaries with housing, $500 a month in expenses, air-travel vouchers and even artillery practice. After the initial abrazos, Chilean officials...
...laborers-or sentenced to three months in jail. Just tossing a cigarette butt on the street can bring a $166 fine. Now Prime Minister Lee has permanently closed Raffles Place. Singapore's Fifth Avenue, to most vehicular traffic. He is also phasing out vendors' stalls, which will doubtless improve sanitation, but will also deprive the city of one of its most colorful sights. Because firecrackers have been deemed dangerous, the deafening Chinese New Year celebration is now a thing of the past...
...wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, recalling the emotional excitement of 1840. "Not a man of us that did not have a plan for some new Utopia in his pocket." As common as a handkerchief and as casually displayed. Today, pockets seem to be empty of anything so inspiring. People are doubtless as distressed about social conditions as they were in 1840, but what has happened to Utopia? Those once myriad visions of ideal societies have all but disappeared, or have been transmogrified into the demonic dreams of science-fiction. Gone are the blessed isles, the jungle retreats, the mountain fastnesses...
...Utopian novel, Limanora, everyone is deliberately made to work too hard to have time to think about himself or his desires. Those who persist in the glorification of sensory pleasures are exiled to an island called Kloriole, which, perhaps not incidentally, sounds like a detergent. Today, it would doubtless be a very crowded island...