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...most formidable early foe of ratification appears to be Alabama's wily Democrat James Allen, a master of parliamentary tactics. He vows to smother the treaties with amendments that would, in effect, force the Administration either to abandon the accord or reopen negotiations with Panama. If this tactic fails, he will try to dilute the treaties with Senate-passed reservations, which would not be legally binding but would commit the U.S. in a moral way, with unpredictable practical effect...
...first there reigns a state of newborn innocence, snuffed out suddenly by the burning of a neighbor's child in a plane crash. "God is a brute and traitor, abandoning us to time," writes Dillard. She despairs of earthly happiness: "You can get caught holding one end of a love, when your father drops, and your mother; when a land is lost, or a time, and your friend blotted out, gone . . ." But in the end, she witnesses a baptism that heralds her own reawakening of faith. One Christian sect, she reads, posits a substance known as "Holy the Firm...
...work within the wide limits that Mingus and his early contemporaries established. Even early in his career, Carter was indebted to Mingus for giving the bass a major role in jazz improvisation. And yet, he did not follow Mingus into the avant-grade line of jazz; he did not abandon the classic role of the bass as a rhythm instrument...
...pros and cons of resignation, there was no rancor. Jordan made clear that he was not speaking for the President, but that his views were shared by other White House advisers. Lance contended that he was being unfairly accused by his critics and that to quit would be to abandon the principle that the mere leveling of charges should not force a man out of office. He wanted a chance to state his defense fully. LaBelle, who sat through all the discussions, was more vehement: Bert should not resign. Nevertheless, Jordan flew back to Washington feeling that his warning about...
Even by the often slippery standards of TV's other so-called docudramas, this two-part made-for-TV movie is preposterous. In four mindless hours, it purports to resolve the major mysteries surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. To do so, Trial garbles history with wild abandon, but unlike ABC's similarly reckless Washington: Behind Closed Doors, it never entertains...