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...they have not let up on Nixon. They were outraged at the invasion of Cambodia, led moves to fix a firm withdrawal date for U.S. troops in Indochina, opposed the anti-ballistic missile system (which survived in the 1969 Senate by only one vote), rejected Nixon Supreme Court Nominees Clement Haynsworth Jr. and G. Harrold Carswell...
Goodell authored the first bill inCongress that would have legislated an end to the Vietnam war. He has also opposed the Nixon Administration on the ABM and the Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell nominations to the Supreme Court...
...patrol the venerable streets of the Vatican. Even the Guards, all Swiss Catholics and veterans of Switzerland's army, are a pale shadow of what they used to be. Founded in 1505 by Julius II, "the fighting Pope," 147 of the 189 Guards once died defending Pope Clement VII against 10,000 of Charles V's mercenaries. Because of recruiting problems, their numbers have dwindled to 59, and their functions have become largely ceremonial. In case of any real trouble, the once-mighty Vatican will have to call on Italian police for help...
...asylum. A quarrel between the king and Pope Boniface VIII had played a part in the election of a French Pope, who moved the papal court to Avignon in 1308. There it remained until 1377, and there the banished Jews found a home. The Avignon Popes, beginning with Clement V, welcomed them-at least partly as valued taxpayers-and guaranteed their safety...
...After Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell were ignominiously rejected for the Supreme Court, the American Bar Association revived an old idea with new force. President Nixon might have avoided much of the trouble, it said, by letting the A.B. A.'s twelve-member Committee on the Federal Judiciary screen his nominees for the Supreme Court before he submitted their names to the Senate. After all, the committee has screened choices for lower federal courts since the Eisenhower Administration. Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson asked the committee to double-check their Supreme Court nominees as well-though usually only...