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...Soviet aggression. He warned that it not only "directly affects the interests of the Third World and adjoining countries" but also "has an unavoidable effect on Europe and us in Germany." In Melbourne, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser asserted that the Soviet action "poses dangers to world peace greater than any in the past 35 years." He called on the nations of the world "to show that a line can and will be drawn against Soviet expansion." Even Indira Gandhi, India's newly re-elected Prime Minister, who at first seemed to back the Soviet move, told a New Delhi...
...present, this policy of interference in domestic affairs and encroachment on people's rights is shown in relation to Iran, but tomorrow in relation to other sovereign states." Alexander Bovin, a senior writer for Izvestia, warned, "It is time for the U.S. to learn to behave with greater modesty. That will be better for both America itself and the whole world." The man in the Moscow street often echoed his leaders' sentiments. "Why are you pushing us around?" asked an economics teacher. "Afghanistan is a Marxist country...
...McGovern-Fraser reforms of 1972, initiated by the Democrats and copied by the Republicans, were intended to open the process to a greater number of people, especially women, minorities and the young. But the new rules have made the selection by caucus so complicated that more and more states have substituted primaries. This year 37 are holding primaries, an expensive and enervating ordeal for candidates that is almost as burdensome as the presidency itself...
...they trudge through the primaries, the candidates aim for the votes of a rather narrow slice of the electorate. Because a greater degree of understanding of candidates and issues is needed to cast a primary ballot, those who vote tend to be articulate, highly motivated, upper middle income citizens, who are usually more ideologically committed, whether to the right or to the left. Writes Chicago Lawyer Newton Minow, former chairman of the FCC: "The current version of primaries turns the decision over to what, in a sense, is a new kind of political boss. A small handful of party activists...
Captain Miller ran away to sea at age 16. He thinks of the semester as a "total immersion," with an impact greater than the academic work load. "My theory is that people are split apart more and more, alone at home watching television," he says. "At sea they are thrown together as a group. That fills a basic human need. How else can you explain the intensity of feeling the students develop...