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...spite of this fun. However, the race can sometimes degenerate into a very base affair. There is a fine line between good physical fun and dangerous violence. It seems to me that everyone would be better off if, next year, a little of the danger were removed by banning ammunition like eggs and apples. Rotten tomatoes, water balloons, and a host of other effective and disgusting projectiles are enough to keep the race interesting...
...process. The ability to comprehend, to conceptualize, to organize and reorganize, to manipulate, to adjust-these are all parts of thought. So are the acts of pondering, rationalizing, worrying, brooding, theorizing, contemplating, criticizing. One thinks when one imagines, hopes, loves, doubts, fantasizes, vacillates, regrets. To experience greed, pride, joy, spite, amusement, shame, suspicion, envy, grief-all these require thought; as do the decisions to take command, or umbrage; to feel loyalty or inhibitions; to ponder ethics, self-sacrifice, cowardice, ambition. So vast is the mind's business that even as one makes such a list, its inadequacy is self...
...sales to Guatemala to help the month old Rios Month regime fight leftist guerillas. The Administration claims Rios Montt, who took power through a coup against the extreme right Lucas Garcia government, has already significantly improved human rights conditions in Guatemala. So, the Guatemalans will receive $4 million in spite parts for the American made helicopters they are using against the leftist rebels. In addition, Washington wants to give Rios Montt $50,000 in military training funds for fiscal year 1982 and another $250,000 for 1983. If this scenario does not sound familiar, just replace Guatemala with the words...
...America--launched an unprovoked invasion of Britain's Falkland Islands. Events, hope may have led us to believe, would succeed where liberal intellectuals, Democratic politicians and the the New York Times had failed. But Reagan and Company have managed to ignore reality as completely as they ignore criticism. In spite of everything, he Administration obviously still sees Latin America as nothing more than an ideological battleground between the Soviet Union and the United States...
...spite of its record, the Arab world quickly seized the opportunity of the mosque attack to indict Israel for Goodman's desecration. Arab leaders called for a one-day general strike, and introduced a condemnation of Israel into the United Nations Security Council...