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More than almost anything else, the nation needs an energy program that can blunt the OPEC threat. The world simply cannot be presented with the continuing spectacle of its most powerful economy slipping into energy bondage to a handful of regimes that aim for one of history's most massive transfers of wealth from other countries. Nor should Americans tolerate complacent reassurances that everything will be all right if folks would just put on sweaters and drive at 55 m.p.h. What good is conservation if the cartel can make up for declines in demands by simply pushing...
...phony definitions of words and phrases. One way or another, it was all designed to obscure the truth. One way or another, it was all done in the name of the greater national interest. But in the end, it all came down in the American mind to a short, blunt outrage-lying...
...bereaved. James ambles around the statehouse in torn shirts and scuffed shoes. He shows a surprising lack of interest in publicity; last week he neglected to alert most of the statehouse press corps when he made a surprise visit to two prisons and chatted with inmates. Said the blunt Governor to one"If I ever catch you in here again, I'll whip your...
...variously heard and taken to heart. After his inauguration last fall John Paul II swiftly showed that he would be an activist teacher. His first speech endorsed both doctrinal conservatism and the reforms that grew out of the Second Vatican Council. Then in Latin America he demonstrated a blunt willingness to confront the theology of liberation and define just how priests should, and should not, pursue social justice. Last week he presented his first encyclical, a formal policy-setting letter from the Pope to the church and the world...
Faster than a speeding bullet? Not likely, when Superman's bright blue leotard bulged from a paunch that was bound to blunt the man of steel's airstream in flight. Actually Texas Senator John Tower, 53, never did get airborne, but otherwise the conservative Republican performed nobly in a Superman spoof mounted in Dallas by a drinking club of politicians and newsmen. "I was born to play Superman," acknowledged Tower, flipping his cape for dramatic emphasis...