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...Arguing that police action might be "the lesser of the evils bound to follow," the statement stressed the University's moral objection to the forcible takeover of a building and its concern for the health and safety of the occupants...
There was no other way for Ali to do it. He could have played his old game against a lesser fighter, but Frazier's endurance would have been too much. To land enough blows on his opponent. Ali would have had to shuffle eight or ten rounds-something for which his 43 months of inactivity had left him completely unprepared. So he decided to anchor himself on the mat, to gain enough sheer strength to put Frazier to sleep with as few punches as possible. But to do that, he had to stay close and inside, which is where Frazier...
...handling of the race question. Racism is viewed in purely economic terms; it divides white workers from black and makes impossible a united struggle for higher wages and better job conditions. PL believes that the white working class suffers the same consequences of racism-although on a lesser scale-as does the black. Thus, the oppression of black people is measured in dollars and cents; many of the fundamental features of racism are glossed over and the whole issue becomes a footnote to the struggle of the white working class. At the same time, groups like the Panthers, which focus...
...some of his close friends, that he has subconsciously tried to escape the possibility of the presidency, partly because of the fate of his brothers. The episode at Chappaquiddick, according to this elaborate speculation, was a subconscious effort to destroy his own presidential chances. So, too, in a lesser way, was his defeat for Senate whip...
...that the real reason for the Cambodia and Laos incursions and the wider use of airpower is not primarily to protect G.I.s on their way out of Viet Nam. It is, they argue, to buy time for President Nguyen Van Thieu's regime in Saigon and, to a lesser extent, for the government in Phnom-Penh. "The President appears to be imposing Thieu and his group on the South Vietnamese people," said Averell Harriman last week. "That's what Vietnamization amounts to." The Communists, for their part, of course, seem equally intent on deposing Thieu before they will...