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"Faster, Higher, Stronger" is the motto of the Olympic Games. "Angrier, nastier, uglier" better describes the scene in Mexico City last week. There, in the same stadium from which 6,200 pigeons swooped skyward to signify the opening of the "Peace Olympics," Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two disaffected...
On August 27 there was a huge demonstration in which about half a million people marched to the Zocalo (the government center). These were not just students, but parents, teachers, and people from the countryside. A group of 5000 people remained after the demonstration and said they would stay there...
Simply put, the byzantine machinations of government a la Johnson have stirred the nation form its customary political apathy. That is why the cords are so large, noisy, and unruly. What the politicians have forgotten, though, is that the crowds signify more than chaos, more than a desire for a...
No Illusions. The break in the ice left some U.S. officials notably cool. After Kosygin announced a nine-point program to halt the nuclear-arms race, one Washington official declared: "Most of that stuff is old garbage. It's a propaganda cover for the fact that their position is...
Oriental gongs trembled as the beautiful young dancer swayed into Khmer rhythms. The bell tones of her name signify "Goddess of Flowers," and certainly Princess Bopha Devi, 25, eldest daughter of Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, looks as serene and elegant as the white frangipani blossoms that she usually...