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...councilors, depending on population, are akin to England's county councils. They will plan and administer but not legislate. Eventually they will be responsible for such areas as public health, public works, forestry, mass transportation, water supply, welfare and local planning. But they may well find themselves running afoul of Rome quite often until the areas of authority are clearly worked out. Five such councils are already operating on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia and in the northern border regions of Valle D'Aosta, Trentino-Alto Adige and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, where the demand for local government...
Only moments ago in biological time, the earth abounded with a myriad of mammals, reptiles and fish that ran afoul of the iron laws of evolution and natural disaster, and are now extinct. But the most devastating killer has been man. Since 1600, when the first precise records were compiled, man has butchered creatures ranging from the abalone to the blue whale and the zebra. "During the past 150 years," says Ecologist Lee M. Talbot of the Smithsonian Institution, "the rate of extermination of mammals has increased 55-fold. If the killing goes on at this pace, in about...
...political reform led her to both ends of the spectrum; following gall bladder surgery; in Manhattan. While teaching political science at New York's Hunter College in the 1920s and '30s, she was one of Communism's most strident U.S. voices. In 1949, she fell afoul of the party for departing from the Moscow line, and thereupon turned 180°. She was a frequent and damaging informer during the McCarthy Senate hearings, eventually grew so conservative that last year she ran (and lost) for U.S. Congressman from New York on the Conservative ticket. She lost...
...already deleted the prohibition of adultery and homosexuality between consenting adults and broadened the right of journalists to print hitherto classified government information without fear of treason proceedings. In addition, Heinemann counseled the Communists how to go about re-establishing a party in West Germany without running afoul of legal problems...
Nixon, by attempting to give judges more discretion as to whom they should allow to go free on bail, may be running afoul of the Constitution. Excessive bail or its denial, except for the most serious crimes, is of course contrary to the fundamentals of Anglo-American law. Thus constitutional experts do not believe that the Supreme Court would permit preventive detention. Says Harvard Professor Robert McCloskey: "An educated guess is that the court would consider this a step backward, and the mood of the court is not to tolerate steps backward...