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...result, at a time when the press faces major problems, and when the public is focusing--as rarely before--on the press as a root of major evil, the public still knows almost nothing about the press, and the press is doing precious little that isn't paranoid, shrill or defensive to correct this critical deficiency. Since Vice President Agnew has resigned to escape a jail sentence, it is easier to see--and say--that the press has overreacted to criticism, particularly criticism from on high. Long before Spiro T. Agnew launched his alliterative assault on the press, an earlier...
...letter, Solzhenitsyn asked the Kremlin leaders to abandon Marxist ideology, as the root of all Soviet society's evils. Sakharov believes that this plea shows a misunderstanding of modern power politics. He argues that a dominant characteristic of Soviet society is an indifference to ideology, which is used only as a "fagade" to preserve the power of the leadership and a totalitarian regime. Solzhenitsyn, he contends, makes the same mistake in attributing ideological motives to the leaders of Communist China, whom Sakharov regards as "no less pragmatic than our own." He also thinks that Solzhenitsyn has "overdramatized" the threat...
Rape and Torture. Convinced that they narrowly escaped execution by leftist extremists last September, the junta leaders are determined to root out all traces of opposition. Midnight arrests still take place, and torture is, by common consent, a tool of the government's newly centralized intelligence apparatus. Its most common forms are electric shock and beatings; with women prisoners, multiple rape has been used to force confessions. "The members of this government think they are going to be murdered in their beds," explains one diplomat. "They see no reason to go easy on anyone who might have something...
...winners' circles for these 29 awards, recognizing individual essays, poems, musical compositions or academic achievement. One Radcliffe administrator has called the findings "mysterious." An investigation is now underway to determine whether outright discrimination among judges, poor publicity of the prizes, or disinterest among women students lies at the root of the discrepancy. The corrective effort seems to have universal support from Radcliffe and Harvard officials; Dean Whitlock has written a letter of inquiry to those prize committees that have not recognized women in their eligible proportions...
...fast to inspect the damage. Most infuriated were hard-line Ulster Protestants, who feel that the new Labor Government is concentrating too much on a political solution and not enough on a military one. Shouted one irate Protestant as Rees clambered about the debris on Royal Avenue: "Root them out! That's what you must do. Root them...