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...district court found that St. Petersburg police assignments were not unreasonable, arbitrary or unconstitutional. Racial classification of the city's cops, said the court, was only a matter of police efficiency. In blunt and unequivocal language, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has now reversed that decision. Said Judge John Minor Wisdom: "If, police efficiency were an end in itself, the police would be free to put an accused on the rack. Police efficiency must yield to constitutional rights...
Bridge to Firepower. Steiner moved his headquarters to Aba, pushing through the panicked flight of thousands of townspeople. He found that the Nigerians had split into two groups. In two days of pitched battles, the five brigades under Steiner's command managed to blunt the advance of both federal columns, which, unable to get their cannon across the river, were fighting without their usual massive artillery support. At week's end, the Biafrans were dug in near two vital crossroads, while the Nigerians were repairing the bridge in order to move across their heavy firepower. Ojukwu...
...basic goals of either U.S. or North Vietnamese policy are likely to survive a genuine settlement. Furthermore, the nature of the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia has undergone considerable change, as French Political Scientist Raymond Aron has astutely pointed out. Initially, the issue in Viet Nam was blunt, says Aron: "Either the Viet Cong will rule in Saigon tomorrow or they won't." But, he adds, "Fortunately, diplomacy can, under certain circumstances, outwit logic." As the war has progressed, the struggle has created a fresh issue partly superseding the old one. The primary issue in Paris today...
...Chicago's improvisational Second City troupe, Alan Arkin has been doing a series of disappearing acts. The authentic Arkin vanishes into a part, never to be seen again. Like Peter Sellers, he has ample physical credentials for a cab driver but rather odd ones for a star. His blunt, anonymous face was born to grouse behind a steering wheel. His voice - often hidden behind a Puerto Rican or Mittel-European accent - is a grainy urban product, like soot. His hair is rapidly disappearing; his walk is a series of slumps...
...more than $1 billion from the amount that the President requested and the smallest authorization in the 21-year history of the foreign aid program. The committee, whose leaders have repeatedly complained in the past that they have been denied a voice in foreign policy, thus voted to blunt one of its more effective instruments...