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...rest of the society and have, of course, affected men as well as women, and perhaps in some respects, more than women--not to speak of the children. If we can live through the next years of nuclear weapons peril, and the dangers within this country of civil strife--what I sometimes think of as traffic jam litigious democracy--I can envisage benign futures which some wings of the women's movement foreshadow with their combined interest in nurturing the oncoming population of children and tough-minded realism about contemporary affairs...
Among little magazines, Partisan Review stands as the most inflential. While its incendiary rivals like Blast, Dynamo and New Masses have gone under--whether for internecine strife, financial problems or dearth of readership--Partisan Review still continues to publish, here in Boston. Phillips attributes the magazine's longevity to its broader appeal: "Partisan Review was more socially, politically and culturally oriented," he adds...
...other supplies landed at Phnom-Penh's Pochentong Airport. It had been chartered by Operation California, an organization headed by two former antiwar activists, Llewellyn Werner, 30, and Richard Walden, 33. Aboard the flight was TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott. His report on a 48-hour visit to this strife-torn land...
Sure, we're proud of the Minutemen in the Revolution; we're relieved that the Civil War was able to heal the awful internal strife that had divided our country; we note that the Spanish-American War marked the emergence of American power and leadership in the world (despite our misgivings about its imperialist implications); and we more keenly sense the brute horror but ultimate triumph of justice and order in the two world wars. Veterans Day conjures up all of these recollections about America's military heritage. Yet something is lacking and terribly wrong today...
...next five days, 20 more Salvadorans died in clashes among the many extremist political factions that have made civil strife a way of life in El Salvador (pop. 4.8 million). On one side are the leftist terrorist groups that seek to provoke a Nicaragua-style insurrection. On the other are the hit teams obedient to the country's ultraconservative elite. Standing helpless in the middle, unable to control either the notoriously brutal 12,000-man security forces or intransigent foes on the left and right, is the civilian-military junta that ousted President Carlos Humberto Romero only last month...