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...another development yesterday, government attorneys said that time has run out on Federal judge W. Arthur Garrity's order that the government state whether or not they have wiretapped Noam Chomsky and Richard Falk. Garrity ordered the government to avow or disavow wiretapping before it could subpoena...
...earth of Laos blushes redder and redder from the blood of peasants killed by our saturation bombing. We perpetuate horror upon horror in a war we have already lost, a war we lost long ago, a war we could never have won, a war intolerable to the principles we avow as our own, and yet students remain if not unmoved, immobile...
...with the oil companies one by one. Negotiating along with Libya will be Algeria and two of the gulf states, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, which have not yet settled on a price for that part of their oil production that reaches the Mediterranean by pipeline. Some major oil companies avow that they will shut down their Libyan production rather than accede to leapfrog demands, lest this cause the painful Teheran pact to come unstuck...
...their own money in livestock, the partners simply fatten and market cattle for high-income city investors in search of a tax shelter. Western takes a 10% sales commission and a quarter of each investor's profit. Since May, the four partners have grossed $1.25 million, and avow that they have had much more fun with cows and steers than with bulls and bears. "Brokers are all being replaced by computers," says Partner Paul Ronan. "They'll end up being just clerks. Here we are pioneers...
...Americans, in the historic traditions of this country, we avow Israel as a sovereign power in the family of nations, which sovereignty therefore must safeguard its own national interest on behalf of its citizens. America, similarly as a sovereign power, must also freely do likewise, unfettered in its foreign policy by pressures from communal minorities of Arab or Israeli ethnic sympathies, or motivated by empathy with their respective coreligionists...