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...most constant influence on the area's life, of course, has been China, where the forebears of most present-day Indochinese lived before migrating south centuries before Christ. On all too many occasions, the Heavenly Emperors to the North sent their representatives-sometimes soldiers, more often messengers demanding tribute. The feudal village, with its population of tax-paying peasants and aristocratic protectors, grew out of that practice, and is still the basic political unit in much of Indochina. The Chinese presence was strongest in Viet Nam, which was more or less a colony for nearly 1,000 years...
Grinspoon noted that present-day allegations concerning the after-effects of marijuana can be traced back several centuries to the time of the Moslem empire. He contended that such "misinformation" has been spread by federal narcotics authorities since marijuana was outlawed...
...Present-day attitudes toward marijuana users represent "a great medical cop-cut," Grinspoon concluded. Enough information exists about the drug, he said, for people to realize "that what we're doing now is completely unsatisfactory...
...them make statements free from interruption. Dellinger: "Like George III, you are trying to hold back the tide of history, you are trying to hold back a second American revolution." Abbie Hoffman: "I'm an outlaw. I always knew free speech wasn't allowed in present-day America." Hayden: "They were bound to put us away." Rubin: "This is the happiest moment of my life." Davis: "My jury will be in the streets tomorrow all over the country." Defense Attorney Kunstler protested that Judge Hoffman was "wrong legally and morally" to sentence the defendants only two days after...
...average new car by 10% or more -but that is not the most immediate problem. The key antipollution device is the "catalytic converter" that burns up hydrocarbons in the exhaust. The trouble is that the converter is eventually gummed up and rendered useless by the tetraethyl lead in present-day gasolines...