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Advocates. In Florida, judges cut out of the G. Harrold Carswell cloth have ruled that The Miami Herald must print replies from political candidates it criticizes in editorials. The Herald has appealed, and the case is now pending before the Supreme Court. Tonight, the Advocates explores the Herald case and related First Amendment issues. Ch. 2, 8 p.m. 1 hour...
...lived in the town. As they entered, the men took off their traditional woolen caps and held them timidly in their thick-fingered, beaten hands. The women entered behind their husbands, a number of them carrying babies in a type of backpack improvised from a bright-banded, carefully-woven cloth. Soon 25 or 30 people were sitting on the hard wooden benches of the church, silently gazing at the two candles that stood unkindled on the small platform at the head of the rectangular church...
...beginning to feel despondent. The only white people who had ever appeared in this outpost were missionaries. I still wanted to find out about the villagers and about their farms and fiestas, their schools and homes. Suddenly, as I walked along, I saw a white cloth at the end of a wooden pole that protruded from the open doorway of a house. I had an idea. Throughout the entire Cochabamba valley the white flag marks the spot where chicha is sold...
GETTY: Things burst and the devil drives. We have to cut our coats according to our cloth. If we haven't enough energy, we'll have to get along on what...
...overcoat. He pulled out a flashcard with a picture of a large tank. "I will make the French tanks kill them." Francois wears his overcoat in any kind of weather. It is a size 52, even though Francois is only five feet tall. Part of the extra cloth covers his hump. Another part gets pulled into a sagging pouch on all sides of him by his pockets, filled with symbols of the war somewhere in his past...