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...goes homeless. Revel neglects the plurality that elected Nixon president. In Revel's context Spiro Agnew is kept busy fighting a rear guard action against the massmedia. The compulsion to split the country neatly into left and right also ignores the middle class and its love of the status quo. American is not, as he says, "composed of two antagonistic camps of approximately equal size." The nation holds a spectrum of ideologies. Even a division into three parts would be more valid...
...than in his or her contribution to the community. This is not an indictment of Harvard students per se; it is a sketch of the spirit of American society today, a spirit resulting from the deliberate, persistent attempt to preserve the economic, social and political status quo at all costs...
...contrast to the Jordanian government, which violated an 1852 agreement on the status quo of the holy places when it barred Jewish pilgrims from the Wailing Wall, Israel allows access to the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque to all Moslems, even those from nations with which it is technically at war. In fact, Israel's occupation has been altogether benevolent-with one exception. Earlier this year, Israel's housing minister mounted "a Zionist exhibition" by confiscating Arab land for high-rise apartments to be occupied by Jewish families. The proposal, since scaled down in response...
...your Nov. 29 review of political campaign contributions, you cite three examples of quid pro quo: 1) dairy farmers' self-interested donations linked to an increase in milk-support prices; 2) a bribery attempt to dismiss fraud charges; and 3) my proposed 1968 donation (never given) to Hubert Humphrey if he could promise an early end to the war in Viet...
...same time the Berlin protocol is signed. The NATO countries, which have made Berlin a test of Soviet intentions, will then be prepared to accept the Communist invitation to a conference on European security that will in effect end World War 11 with formal international acceptance of the status quo on the divided continent...