Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well as students, to take an explicit stand against racism. The recent wave of vicious attacks on members of the Black Paniher Party is indicative of the oppression and intimidation black people face when they begin to challenge the ways in which they are suppressed and exploited within our present social and economic system. We should support black people against all such attacks...
...present shift to the right is in one perspective illusory. Since the start of the New Deal, the tide of the nation has flowed to the left. Middle America is now swimming against that tide on some issues, but the current is likely to continue, carrying it ever more
Agnew is to present Marcos-and the other leaders on his itinerary-with five milligrams of lunar dust encased in a Lucite block. The gifts are in fulfillment of a promise made by the President last summer when he visited some of the countries on Agnew's tour in the afterglow of the first moon landing...
Twenty years ago last week, Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin turned 70, and the Soviet Union celebrated with a birthday party to end all birthday parties. Factory workers and farm hands promised to double, triple and quadruple their production norms as a present to their leader. The Italian Communists sent an Alfa Romeo sports car to the Kremlin, while the French party dispatched a chromium-plated racing bicycle. For the next eight months, Pravda's pages had room for little except birthday greetings...
...dissidents' worst fears were unfounded. In its birthday editorial, Pravda criticized Stalin for "diverging from the Leninist principles of collective leadership," which resulted in "unfounded reprisals against prominent party, state and military figures." Shorn of its jargon, the statement means that the present collective leadership is not at all tempted to return to the principal feature of Stalinism: absolute one-man rule, reinforced by mass police terror. The men in the Kremlin well know that the Stalinist system would devour those who set it in motion again, as it once devoured tens of thousands of Stalin's colleagues...