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...vote did not alter the basic center-right orientation of the Strasbourg-based European Parliament, which is a largely consultative body with some influence but few practical powers. Yet the hints of political polarization pointed toward a period of uncertainty in France and, to a lesser degree, in West Germany. In almost every major country, the election forced governments as well as opposition leaders to reconsider their strategies in the light of what appeared to be a newly volatile and irritated electorate...
...chief challengers to A T & T are MCI and Sprint, small but nimble carriers that nibble away at A T & T's customers with high technology, growing networks and lower tolls. Along with lesser-knowns like Chicago's Allnet, the big competitors are mounting publicity and ad campaigns that would make Barnum proud. Actor
...Scum might seem more engaging and colorful if he were not so familiar: another in a long line of romantics who disdain the bourgeois "scramble for outside things like money or status," a lesser descendant of that definitive rogue-genius Gulley Jimson, hero of Joyce Gary's The Horse's Mouth. For a man who claims that most of his life has been "a flight from boredom," Scum has an amazing tolerance for bull-session profundities. Scarcely a page goes by without an interpolated haiku-like verse (WE WEAR OURSELVES INSIDE OUT/ TRYING TO BRING THE OUTSIDE...
...small signs that the pendulum is swinging back slightly. No flames of outright censorship are visible, but a purifying heat seems to be coming out of Rome. For the first time in 17 years, two books, one of them the bestselling adult catechism in English and the other a lesser-known theological work used mainly in seminaries, have had their ecclesiastical stamp of approval revoked...
...free speech in this context is a cruel hoax. The Harvard campus abounds with right-wing academics, "distinguished" apologists for death squad "democracies," the Pipes who argue for anti-Soviet nuclear war, the Mansfields who gripe "there's too many Jews..." the Klitgaards who argue "blacks should attend lesser institutions than Harvard." But student protest has been primarily aimed, not at ideologues, but at those who strategize for and direct U.S. imperialist forces and their puppets in campaigns of mass murder. Jeane Kirkpatrick, Caspar Weinberger, Henry Kissinger, Jose Napoleon Duarte, etc., ad nauseum are war criminals, not academics...