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...City have been ordered to swap their paint sprayers for cleaning brushes. A professor arrested in a protest demonstration was sentenced to write a 1,500-word essay on civil disobedience, while a thief who stole some saddles from a farmer was made to raise a pig and a calf for his victim. One judge is even said to have sentenced a naked Frisbee player to plant fig trees in a park...
...former strength after it scuttled Mrs. Gandhi and renounced her dictatorial ways. But as the February elections approach in four states traditionally ruled by Congress, the party is in disarray. Pro-and anti-Indira factions are fighting over the right to use Congress's cow-and-calf emblem on the ballot-a crucial issue in a nation with 64% illiteracy. Now, in a plague-on-both-your-houses mood, a significant number of Congress Party regulars may cast their votes for Janata's man-with-a-plow emblem-a symbol for millions of the Desai government...
What good is it, Hirsch asks, to continue to produce goods--and by producing them ravage the environment--when the end result is not an increase in happiness. The man at the circus ends up with sore calf muscles. People pollute their environment. Nobody is any better...
...losing their ability to constructively criticize policies they would oppose in other situations. His writing on that subject is explosive. He asserted in a bulletin published by his group in 1972 that "the majority of fellow Jews... worship the material State of Israel like our ancestors worshipped the Golden Calf and Baal...
...Nile Delta, to which nearly 2 million Cairenes-among them Egyptian President Anwar badat-flee each summer to escape the capital's stifling heat. The Secretary, who suffers from a chronically bad back arrived fatigued from his 13-hour flight. Although he was limping slightly because of a calf muscle he had pulled the previous day in a tennis game with World Bank President Robert McNamara, he headed directly for Sadat's lavish four-story seaside villa. As Vance approached, Sadat began opening his arms for the traditional Arab embrace with which he used to greet Henry Kissinger...