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...told the delegates: "I will not allow my children to be bused." McKeithen, who has ambitions to run for the Senate, had brought along a more moderate speech, but realized that there was more political capital in the defiant version. He was right. The speech was televised, and immediately afterward his office received 1,500 calls and telegrams endorsing his stand. In decrying busing, McKeithen and the other Governors are largely attacking a straw man. They talk as if busing were the law; in fact, the Supreme Court has not ordered busing and seems unlikely...
...household is aghast, but it is fair to assume that one member is not mystified at all. Shortly afterward, Leo corners Witold and lets him know that he is quite aware of the young man's obsession with his daughter-and quite satisfied. As it happens, behind his cherished respectability he himself has led a secret phantasy life. "Bergtitbits and bergpenalties awarded by the High Court," he crows. "Bergpunishments inflicted by the local penal authorities and bergtitbits awarded by the department of caresses and delights...
Judging by initial reports from the collapsed Biafran pocket, the sword of genocide was a lesser threat than the strangling knot of slow starvation. Some Biafrans, according to relief workers, had not eaten for eight days before the capitulation. Afterward, they fled into the bush, where there was nothing to chew on but butterflies. Even so, Gowon allowed no aid without approval from Lagos. "Nigeria will do this itself," he said firmly...
...invariably provokes. Early last year, for example, when Premier Levi Eshkol suggested that Israel might not retain some Arab-populated areas of the West Bank, an awesome political uproar followed; some of Eshkol's friends claim that it contributed to the fatal heart attack that struck him soon afterward. Deputy Premier Yigael Allon was also criticized sharply by Israeli hawks for proposing that some bits of Arab land be returned to Arab control...
...women who fail to menstruate or ovulate for a year or two after dropping the Pill. But the true incidence of Pill-induced infertility cannot yet be measured, Kistner points out, because if a woman has never had a child before going on the Pill and does not conceive afterward, she may be among the 10% to 15% of women who are naturally infertile. Even after having borne one child, Kistner said, 7% to 8% of women cannot conceive again...