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...1970s were the decade in which Modernism died. Its Boot Hill turned out to be the U.S., in whose hospitable soil the dreams of the pioneers of modern art and architecture lie buried, toes to the rising sun. Once they hoped the world would be made whole by new paintings and new buildings. It was not, and there is no avant-garde any more; the very phrase has been scrapped, becoming one of the historical curiosities of criticism...
When faced with that question, a U.S. official replies, "Think about it for a minute. Those troops would be stationed on Iranian soil. They might very well find themselves confronted with Iranian mobs shouting 'Yankee, go home.' Either they would have to go home or they would be embroiled in a civil war-probably on the losing side...
Labor can only increase its power by either loosening the organizational constraints keeping the leadership's sphere of potential actions from shifting to the left, or by the leaders themselves adopting a more leftist ideological orientation. Canada's worsening economy promises to provide fertile soil for the increased politicization of working people and the adoption of more militant postures to protect hard-pressed rights and gains. The extent to which the Canadian left can stimulate renewed political interest, and perhaps more importantly, the extent to which renewed political interest stimulates the Canadian left, will jointly determine the fate of progressive...
...wonder why Jones had not been stopped earlier by the police or the CIA. Yet France's daily Le Monde, which is frequently critical of American policy, found the massacre "unAmerican." Said the paper: "It would have been inconceivable, and without doubt unrealizable on the victims' own soil, with or without their consent. It was necessary to uproot them, to transport them to the heart of the jungle, to transform them into prisoners of a delirious faith in a messiah, who in the end would give free rein to his instincts for domination and death for them...
...Nicolae Ceauşescu has long defied Moscow in foreign policy matters. His is the only Warsaw Pact country that did; not break relations with Israel after the 1967 war, did not join in the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia and does not allow, a Soviet military presence on its soil. Ceauşescu has cultivated ties with Peking and has endorsed the U.S.-sponsored Middle East negotiations...