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To Messaros and Boston, the enemies are "bugs"-"riffraff," as Boston translates it, white and black alike. "It's not really a war," Messaros explains. "It's trying to make a place that's got good people and bad people living in it safe for the nice...
Pipe and Slippers. For if it has not already happened at your house, braless converts to the Women's Liberation Movement are poised to leap right off the panels of the TV talk shows and play hell with your pipe and slippers. Sooner or later they will probably be...
ly to our interests in power. It counsels economic reform so as to better bypass the troubling social unrest that accompanies popular programs of modernization. This translates quickly to anti-communism.
The popular cry is to be heard, which translates into "handed." The militants' and the activists' shouts are replete with four-letter words, the unused,but printable one is work.
With every account of hardship, there is an exhortation to greater work and sacrifice. Nowhere has there appeared an official suggestion that Hanoi should alleviate the suffering by calling a halt to the fighting. The power to make that decision rests with the triumvirate that succeeded Ho-Premier Pham Van...