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Smith offered no explanation of the timing of the raids. If their purpose was to bolster the bargaining position of Rhodesia's whites, the Prime Minister possibly miscalculated. Muzorewa, the popular moderate, was forced to rally to the defense of Mugabe, the hardliner. Said the bishop: "Rhodesian whites, and I include the Prime Minister, simply don't realize the depth of feeling aroused among the Africans by the two attacks." Fearing that any association with Smith would discredit them among Rhodesia's blacks, Muzorewa and Sithole might want to reconsider any transfer of power to which...
...this is a hollow argument, one that does little to bolster Nixon's defense. It is all too easy to forget, in reading Price's attack, that the two years of national hysteria over Watergate misdeeds, real or imagined, would not have occurred if Nixon had not initiated the coverup in the days following the June 1972 break-in. Moreover it is certainly inadequate to argue that Nixon's actions of June 23, 1972 represented the president's sole obstruction of justice. His actions for more than two years following those June days constituted one ongoing obstruction of justice...
...that marriage is becoming chic again, Zero Population Growth, the group that worries about overcrowding the planet, has launched a pre-emptive counterattack. The November issue of the ZPG National Reporter runs a list of "exceptional" only children in an attempt to bolster the argument of some psychologists that "onlies" tend to do better in life than those folks distracted by sibling rivalries. The compendium is impressive. Among the artists and poets, actors and statesmen, comics and scientists who were only children: Ann-Margret, Ansel Adams, Hannah Arendt, Charles Baudelaire, Willy Brandt, Arthur Burns, Richard Daley, Indira Gandhi, Elvis Presley...
...economic recovery. Last week Burns replied somewhat testily. In a speech at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., he said he had no intention of "letting the money supply grow at a rate that will fuel the fires of inflation." He added that unless Government policies shift to bolster business confidence, unemployment may remain high, and the economy could soon slip into another recession...
Such measures would bolster Bonn's police powers-a development that also worries many Germans in view of their country's Nazi past. But if the mood of the country in the wake of the Schleyer kidnaping is any guide, most Germans today feel that the dangers of increased terrorism are far greater than the risk of democratically elected governments in Bonn misusing increased powers...