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Whatever the solution, the question for Americans is not what's wrong with the police, but what citizens can do to help. For all its Birchite origin, there is no real alternative to the right-wing slogan, "Support your local police." In its proper definition, support would mean paying higher taxes for higher wages to attract better policemen, and for modern equipment to match modern tasks. It would also mean a constant concern for constitutional rights-and utmost respect for the cop who guards freedom as zealously as he upholds order...
...Basque language [Sept. 6] has intrigued me ever since I heard of Maurice Ravel's pride in his ability to speak this mysterious tongue. But there now exists a work which offers an explanation of its origin that is as intriguing as the former mystery: Dravidian Origins and the West, by N. Lahovary. The author offers phonetic, lexical and morphological evidence for close links between the Basque language and Dravidian, an Indian language. He concludes that these languages are members of an ancient pre-Hamito-Semitic family whose single origin and single center of diffusion is the Near East...
...young rabbis are campus radicals, and few members of Students for a Democratic Society have much use for organized religion. Nonetheless, many of the nation's most vocal young protesters are of Jewish origin. A survey conducted by the American Jewish Committee in San Francisco last year found that 30% of Haight-Ashbury's hippies were Jewish. The Hillel Foundations, campus arm of B'nai B'rith, concluded that Jewish students made up one-third of last spring's Columbia protesters...
...Hitler rose to power in Germany, the Germans in Czechoslovakia saw a redeemer who would bring them home. Hitler was delighted to oblige. He charged that the country's citizens of German origin were being mistreated and must have his protection. Benes, who by then had succeeded Masaryk as President, needed international support in order to stand up to Hitler...
These flights, the report stresses, should provide vast new knowledge about the solar system, the origin and evolution of life, and the processes that govern the earth's interior, surface and atmosphere. But the scientists warn that planning must begin years ahead of any actual mission. Thus, they conclude, "decisions arrived at this year and next will go far in determining the future character and scope of planetary programs...