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...well-trained army and police. But the loyalties of Rhodesia's armed forces are in doubt. A good percentage of Rhodesian enlisted men were recruited in Britain, and more than half of the nation's officers rose through the ranks of the British army. Whether they would obey orders actually to open fire against the Queen's men was a question that Smith, for one, hoped would never have to be answered. But an answer of sorts did come last week: three new recruits from Britain deserted Smith's national police, crossed into Mozambique, and were...
...Novelty. In fact, the Justice Department has scrupulously heeded the intent of the law, which aims primarily to encourage local compliance. Katzenbach has done his utmost to persuade county officials to obey the law rather than have federal registrars sent in. As a result of such pressure-and patience -two-thirds of all new Negro voters have been voluntarily registered by local officials...
...cheering onlookers were packed five and ten deep along the streets, and Fifth Avenue was a solid sea of faces. But embarrassingly long stretches of the papal route were almost bereft of welcomers, as millions of other New Yorkers apparently used the cool October weather as an excuse to obey police suggestions that they stay home and watch it all on television...
Among television's vast lexicon of unwritten rules there are three inviolable tenets: 1) don't offend minority groups-they write letters; 2) don't tell sick jokes-they offend critics; 3) don't knock the hero-the audience identifies with him. Failure to obey these laws is punishable by death-for the show, and sometimes for the career of the creator. The result, inevitably, is a season like the present one-limp scripts and look-alike actors, the halt leading the bland...
...tell you." The ghetto's children, in particular, regard the riot leaders as freedom fighters. Those at the forefront of the chaos have hardly been chastened by such irresponsible post-mortems as Senator Robert Kennedy's verdict: "There is no point in telling Negroes to obey the law. To many Negroes the law is the enemy." Boasts one husky youth: "If we don't get things changed here, we're gonna do it again. We know the cops are scared, and now all of us have guns. Last time we weren't out to kill...