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...volatile as the explosives they work with, coal miners have a long history of blasting the best-laid plans of mine operators, coal users and U.S. Presidents. For the past month the United Mine Workers, torn by dissension and corruption, have been negotiating with the mine owners to formulate a new labor contract and avoid a strike on Thursday, Sept. 30, when the present pact expires. Though a peaceful settlement seems likely, nobody is discounting a walkout that could threaten the nation's critical need for electric power and jar the Administration's new economic policies...
Habash returns the compliment. In a Beirut office plastered with Mao posters and such artifacts as a U.S. seal torn from the American embassy in Amman 18 months ago, Habash said Hussein and Feisal are among his targets. "Feisal is part of the enemy camp," he told Scott. "He is working for the petroleum companies. Regimes like his want the resistance to be part of their planning. They want to rule us. We say it is more important to have the masses than to have $5,000,000 from Saudi Arabia...
Following a private meeting with General Minh several months ago, I tried to tell Mr. Kissinger what he should have known anyway: that Minh would not accept his assigned role in a Kissinger-produced, Ellsworth Bunker-directed charade. Minh happens to be an honest man as torn inwardly as his country is torn outwardly by an endless, American-made war. Mr. Kissinger and Ambassador Bunker bear full responsibility for blocking South Vietnamese self-determination and destroying the best chance for peace since the war began...
Myth No. 1: "Conformity" and "uniformity" are now the chief characteristics of American society. "The truth," Revel writes, "is that American society is torn by too many tensions not to become more and more diversified." He sees the U.S. as a healthy bundle of contradictions, "a diversity of mutually complementary, of alternative subcultures...
Readers who may have wondered ever since freshman English what it feels like to have an arm torn off by Beowulf in Hrothgar's meadhall can now relax. It hurts like the devil. "I bawl like a baby. I am slick with blood," cries Grendel in this splendid fiend's-eye view of an Anglo-Saxon epic. "My heart booms with terror." Yet as Novelist John Gardner retells the story, much of Grendel's pain is pure philosophical chagrin...