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...difficult to prescribe exact behavior for a covert undertaking. Strict rules of conduct could be damaging in certain situations. Suppose terrorists manage to obtain and hide an atomic weapon, then threaten to blow up a city???a not inconceivable happening in the decades ahead...
Gradually, however, the realization took over that the unthinkable had happened: at 9:34 on one of the summer's most sweltering nights, air conditioners, elevators, subways, lights, water pumps ?all the electric sinews of a great modern city???had stopped. They would not work again for as long as 25 hours. The blackout was far smaller than that of 1965?9 million people lost electricity in New York and the northern suburbs, v. 25 million people in eight states and two Canadian provinces twelve years ago. But the effects were nationwide. TV networks stopped broadcasting for several minutes...
...Springs. But officially or not, the President will be campaigning hard this week. An edited version of his socko acceptance speech will be shown on CBS-TV. The President Ford Committee bought the air time, for $86,000, because the speech was delivered at 10:30 p.m. in Kansas City???a time when untold millions in such pivotal Eastern states as Pennsylvania (27 electoral votes) and New York (41) had already gone to bed. Then, staying in Washington and acting "presidential"?a major theme of his campaign?Ford will address the B'nai B'rith convention, a speech that...
...Jews, the earthly Jerusalem remains an irresistible symbol of hope and triumph. For others, aliyah to the existing Jerusalem is not necessary to reach the ideal one. To them, "Next Year in Jerusalem" means a spiritual journey: contributing their special vision to help build something nearer to that heavenly city???the kingdom of God?throughout the world...
...lives. Similar judgments are eventually expected in other states, and Minnesota's Supreme Court has already adopted such a ruling. If the drive to "equalize" school finance forced wealthy suburban communities to support schools in poor urban areas, parents might have less objection to busing their children to the city???and less incentive to leave it in the first place...