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...question is, who will belong to that collective leadership? As China's leaders mount the rostrum in Peking for the silver anniversary of their rule, Sinologists will be trying to determine which individuals or groups among them will be able to engineer a smooth succession to the post...
...hospital for the disabled the camera focuses on several pairs of feet, some real, some wooden; they belong to mine-victims and grenade-casualties. An American nurse at the hospital says quite bluntly the worst problem is land-mines left by American troops. The Paris peace accord stipulated that all American land-mines be removed or defused within sixty days of the agreement. The most recent casualty, a teenage girl, is still soaking the stump of her amputated leg in solution to keep it from getting infected--more than a year after the treaty was signed. Later...
...still unresolved story of dusty, hot little Byhalia should belong to a traumatic and unhappy part of southern history. But the death of Butler Young, Jr., the tragedy of Hubert Mills, the threats to Alfred Robinson, the bewilderment of Dudley Moore indicate otherwise...
...Andes. All the staircases at Harvard would have shivered their timbers at the sight of this bannisterial specimen, but I was calm as I edged my duff onto its perimeter, then slid down. Upon my descent, the Dean appeared from the shadows and growled, you don't belong at this college young man, and I fled out the door with a shudder...
Whatever the procedure, there is a growing consensus that official papers concerning public affairs and prepared at public expense indeed belong to the people. The fact that Presidents historically have disposed of material as they wished is not binding. As the Supreme Court noted in the 1969 case of Powell v. McCormack: "An unconstitutional action ... taken before surely does not render that same action any less unconstitutional at a later date...