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...Audiences hooted at a parody of Nixon's re-election slogan: "Four more years-with two off for good behavior." More ominously, there was open speculation, in print as well as in conversation, about the President's being impeached or having to resign. Even Nixon's bitterest foes dreaded the prospect, if only because it would mean President Spiro Agnew. Congressman Henry Reuss, a liberal Democrat, made a rather fantastic proposal for the resignations of both Nixon and Agnew...
...majority necessary to override the veto, leaving the state functionally without an abortion law of any kind, since lower courts have declared the present statute unconstitutionally vague and appeals are pending. With that, Mullen sounded the charge for his race against Shapp next spring, which could be among the bitterest elections in Pennsylvania's history: he called the Governor's veto the result of a "paganistic, atheistic philosophy...
...EUROPE'S bitterest family feud, long the focal point of cold war tension, now appears to be at an end. This week East and West Germany formally agreed upon a state treaty to normalize relations between the Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic. In addition to being a historic milestone on the road to detente in Central Europe, the treaty provides a timely boost for West Germany's campaigning Chancellor Willy Brandt, who faces an election Nov. 19. As Brandt grandly summed up its effect: "Much will become possible that was unimaginable before yesterday...
Surely one of the bitterest, most poignant tolls of the war was taken simply on the 2.7 million Americans who fought there. If the majority of them performed bravely and well?and they did?their sacrifices were somehow tragically diminished by the very ambiguity of the war, its often enraging purposelessness. At its very worst, that frustration produced My Lai and other less celebrated atrocities. The fraternity of Viet Nam veterans faced the additional frustration of returning with neither honor nor glory to the nation they were supposedly "defending." The experience is especially bitter for those thousands who came back...
...these circumstances, the bitterest and most extreme of the fedayeen have turned to Black September. It surfaced for the first time last November in Cairo, where four terrorists boldly assassinated Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tell as he entered the Cairo-Sheraton Hotel. Tell was a pro-Western Arab interested in negotiating with Israel; his killers are out of jail on bail awaiting a trial that has yet to be scheduled. Since that time, Black September teams have also murdered five Jordanians living in West Germany whom they suspected of spying for Israel; attempted to assassinate Jordan's ambassador to London...