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...trial itself proceeded under the tightest security precautions in West Berlin's history. As 200 policemen guarded the courthouse against student demonstrators, security men with machine guns and Alsatian dogs patrolled the corridors. The defendants themselves sat in bullet-proof-glass enclosures-popping up occasionally to denounce the authorities as "swine" and "fascists." After Ulrike Meinhof took the witness stand and praised the freeing of Baader as "an outstanding example of urban guerrilla activity," few expected an acquittal...
More than half a billion miles from earth this week, a small (570 Ibs.), unmanned spacecraft is completing the first lap of an incredible journey. As it hurtles past Jupiter at a speed of 107,000 m.p.h., some 50 times faster than a rifle bullet, Pioneer 11 is slated to use its cameras and instruments to reconnoiter the solar system's largest planet. That will be only part of its task. As it passes 26,000 miles above Jupiter's turbulent cloudtops, the spacecraft will be pulled by the planet's gravitational field into a corkscrew-shaped...
...cliche is covered, parsed, dissected. We treat him with slightly amiable disdain." Centrist commentators like James Reston of the New York Times have on occasion criticized Ford unsparingly. After Ford's economic speech to Congress, Reston wrote: "The fear here is that he didn't bite the bullet but nibbled it." The judicious David S. Broder of the Washington Post, who had defended the Nixon pardon, summed up Ford in his first hundred days as "surely the simplest man to occupy the White House in modern times...
...press his claim in court under the act's provision for judicial review. He may not have much luck. Judges have upheld similar bureaucratic refusals when a Congressman sought reports on the My Lai massacre investigation and a Warren Commission critic asked to see tests of the "single bullet" that killed John Kennedy and wounded John Connally...
Through such tactics, Park has managed to mute dissent within Korea, though an assassin's bullet intended for him killed his wife last summer. But outside the country, support for him has shrunk. Two congressional committees want to slash U.S. military aid to Korea almost in half, to about $80 million for this fiscal year...