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According to the statement, the women's refusal to comply with the injunction may force the University to call for police intervention as a last resort. No administrative decision on the matter has yet been reached...
Freeze the Fear. The Nixon report is candid in other ways. Discussing U.S. attitudes toward South Africa, Nixon asserts that "racism is abhorrent to the American people, to my Administration, and to me personally-we cannot be indifferent to apartheid." But he argues that "resort to force would freeze the prejudice and fear which lie at the heart of the problem" and that rather than trying to isolate white regimes, "a combination of contact and moral pressure" is the best tactic. Throughout the report, Nixon repeatedly admits that his foreign policy options are severely limited by domestic opinion...
...room table a copy of Reich's Greening of America, and there alone, in the midst of unaccountable pain he finally understands that he is a part of Consciousness III. Committed to that category, he accepts the invitation of some old school friends and moves to an abandoned ski resort in Vermont-where Innis ends the novel with a primal scream, at once cathartic and empty...
...loading ramp into the trailer, the van roars off. Rustlers have no trouble selling the steers for up to $300 a head at regularly scheduled livestock auctions, some in Georgia and Alabama. Many ranchers contend that a portion of the stolen beef winds up in Florida's resort motels and Mafia-controlled restaurants...
...Account Systems, a Chicago-based collection firm that is owned by Diners Club, was assigned $150 million in debts to collect last year, up $20 million from 1969. Though more agents were hired, the company actually collected only 25% of the debts, compared with 30% in 1969. Some debtors resort to "the hat trick"; they toss all their bills into a hat and at month's end pull out a few at random and pay them...