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...aging were a series of brushfire walkouts that spread from West Virginia to Kentucky and Ohio this past summer, idling many mines for eight weeks. Though Miller personally appealed to the men to go back, his pleas were ignored. Mine owners-whose negotiating team is headed by Joseph Brennan, 42, a onetime U.M.W. official-contend that buyers are becoming reluctant to purchase U.M.W.-mined coal, because there is no assurance of continued supply...
...vote, the Supreme Court last week rejected five separate arguments by Nixon that the law violated his constitutional rights and, unfairly, applied only to him. Senior Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. declared that Nixon was "a legitimate class of one," a proper target for special treatment by Congress because of the danger that Nixon might destroy evidence...
...Brennan's opinion carefully underlined the singularity of the Nixon case, attributing the law to "a context unique in the history of the Presidency." Two of the six concurring Justices forcefully reiterated that the law set no precedent for future congressional dealings with departing Presidents...
...Marshall charged that the court's decision would "brutally coerce poor women to bear children," and said that he was "appalled at the ethical bankruptcy of those who preach a 'right to life' that means a bare existence in utter misery for so many." Justice William Brennan claimed the decision "seriously erodes" the principle, set forth by the court in its historic 1973 ruling, that it is unconstitutional for Government to interfere with a woman's choice whether or not to have an abortion...
...saying it's heaven. But it's at least across the hall." In this case, near-Valhalla is the forthcoming Bogart spoof, Cheap Detective, set in 1940s San Francisco. Written by Simon, it stars Falk along with Louise Fletcher, Ann-Margret, Marsha Mason, Eileen Brennan, Stockard Channing and Madeline Kahn. A natty Falk makes time with all six ladies while stumbling up against the Gestapo on a hunt for precious gems that look like birds' eggs-a kind of Maltese omelet...