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Nonetheless, the protest stirred the U.N. Security Council to adopt a unanimous declaration calling for governments to take effective measures against hijackers. The declaration stopped short of proposing sanctions or mandatory extradition of hijackers, as demanded by the pilots. The U.S. has come out for neither action, favoring instead appropriate trial and penalty within local laws. In Montreal, however, the International Civil Aviation Organization, a specialized U.N. agency, directed its legal committee to draft a convention permitting sanctions against nations that shelter or fail to punish hijackers...
Tough Line. While Whitelaw dealt with the U.D.A., an unexpected opening came from the other side. Whitelaw had previously released more than half of the Catholic men interned without trial last summer, and ordered the British army to adopt a lower profile in the Catholic ghettos. Now, many of Ulster's Catholics had begun to sign peace petitions, and the I.R.A. was losing support. Last week the Provisionals' fugitive chief of staff, Sean MacStiofain, called reporters to a rendezvous behind the Londonderry barricades. If Whitelaw would agree within 48 hours to meet the I.R.A. to discuss their peace...
...only way McGovern might now be denied the nomination, many Democrats felt, was for him to adopt such intransigent positions before the credentials and platform committees that his momentum would abruptly halt, and the uncommitted delegates would harden against him. According to this scenario, he would so antagonize party regulars that his delegates would freeze at 1,300, denying him a first-ballot victory. Then a hemorrhage might begin, with his delegates leaking away to Muskie or Humphrey or a dark horse. But to deny the nomination to a man who had accumulated 1,300 or more delegates through...
Longer Penis. Morgan dauntlessly tackles the questions that interest and titillate most amateur and professional anthropologists: Why did human beings adopt face-to-face sex? And why did the human male develop the largest penis of any primate? In both cases, she maintains, convenience rather than pleasure was the decisive factor. Although an ape's vagina is easily accessible from the rear, the human vagina has moved forward and is "tidily tucked away" deep in the body, "possibly for protection against salt water and abrasive sand." Man's penis thus "grew longer for the same reason...
...year American monopoly on the Olympic eight-oared title, the superiority of the European training programs, bolstered by improvements in equipment and rigging concepts, have resulted in consistent disappointment for American eights in international races. And despite an eagerness on the part of several U. S. rowing coaches to adopt new European methods, the gulf appears to be widening, if anything...