Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first, both Smith and Nkomo seemed to be trying to calm things down. Smith promised merely a "modified" martial law and rejected the idea of general mobilization as an unnecessary burden on the country's economy; most young whites spend six months a year in the armed forces anyway...
...variety of names for their emergency powers. The Philippines has had full martial law since 1972, when President Ferdinand Marcos arrested hundreds of opponents and began to rule by decree. Marcos recently told a group of international lawyers that his people were more concerned about food than freedom anyway. "The bottom line of that argument," observes New York University Law School Professor Thomas Franck, "is that the suspension of political rights is a way to increase economic rights." So far, martial law has kept Marcos in power and accomplished not a great deal more. "The trouble with martial law," laments...
Once it passes the Senate, the natural gas bill will pass blithely to the House, where the machinations of Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. (D-Mass.) will virtually guarantee passage. O'Neill is on the side of the Administration again after a quarrel with Carter this summer. And anyway, a nervous election-year Congress, itching to go back and tell the home folks that it has done something about energy, is anxious to pass it and be done with the whole mess...
...Social Studies, took out newspaper ads supporting incumbent Republican Governor Francis Sargent against his ADA-endorsed Democratic opponent, Michael Dukakis. The ads basically pointed out that Sargent was a good liberal who supported social welfare programs for the poor, and that a bird in the hand, etc... Dukakis won anyway, 65 per cent to 35 per cent. And the worst nightmares of the liberals have come true...
...dramas need to be enacted--especially one that never gives the answer but charges $10 anyway. Sexual Perversity in Chicago never really gets to the point. It is a trite medley of some stereotyped, six-pack guys, their neurotic quests for orgasmic relief, and creeping cynicism...