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Editorial Impression. The verdict left Mobil officials "disappointed" and the question of "inaccuracies" in the ABC special unresolved. Some of Mobil's complaints seem specific enough to merit more than a blanket dismissal. To the ABC statements that Government policy encourages foreign oil exploration at the expense of domestic drilling, for instance, Mobil responded that over the past ten years it has devoted about two-thirds of its exploration funds to projects in the U.S. In refusing to deal individually with such areas of disagreement, the council defended ABC's right to create any "editorial impression" it wants...
During its first session, the committee agreed not to issue a blanket subpoena for the 107 tape recordings and documents that President Nixon has refused to give it. Instead, the committee will vote individual subpoenas throughout the hearings as gaps appear in the evidence already received from the White House, a Watergate grand jury and other sources. One of the first subpoenas is likely to include a request for the tape of a meeting between Nixon, former Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman and then-Attorney General John Mitchell on April 4, 1972. According to testimony given to the Senate Watergate...
...home town, Bakersfield. As cocky and uncontrollable as they come, he steamed up some home brew under the guards' noses-and got caught. As his 21st birthday rolled around, he found himself in solitary confinement with only pajama bottoms, a Bible and a blanket on a cement floor to call his own. At long last he was convinced that something was wrong with the way he was leading his life...
...entire country--legally, economically, and socially. She also realizes that nearly all potential forces of change in the judicial or legislative system are male. But after establishing those facts she launches into hateful attacks, not against a few men, but against all of them. This kind of blanket condemnation constitutes reverse prejudice. Why should a group of people sensitive to injustice participate in additional injustice...
Many of the marathoners couldn't stand on their own and had to be held up on either side by friends. Others sought the shelter of a warm blanket. Some were in true agony, clutching at their sides and coughing violently. Burns, and later Kala, walked away without faltering. But on all of their faces was a dazed look. Burns accepted congratulations and moved off, seemingly unaware of his surroundings...