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...narrator has no name but she is mysteriously connected with the characters, Suspicions of what the connection is compel you through the book. You need to know why this woman is spending her time strolling in solitude along a Maine beach, why she is spending her summer remembering, why it all began 40 years ago, with Mira...
...right to own property, but did not intend the 14th Amendment to grant them equal access to voting booths, schools, juries or jobs. Thus in Berger's accounting, when Congress enacted the provision including blacks as full citizens in apportioning House seats, it did not mean to compel the former Confederacy actually to give blacks the vote. Quite the opposite, he says: the provision meant to reduce Southern representation when the former slavocracy denied blacks the opportunity to vote, ensuring continued Re publican control of the Government...
...shambles; a filibuster by Republicans and Southern Democrats last week killed his bill for public financing of Senate elections. But a remarkable amount of his energy program is moving through Congress (see ENERGY). Carter also signed into law the first national strip-mining bill, which will compel operators to restore the landscape to approximately its original condition...
...offering a daily, no-frills, nonreservation shuttle service at a round-trip price of just $236 (v. $631 for a 14-21 day summer excursion fare). IATA members vehemently opposed him, warning that his "Skytrain" service would hurt the scheduled carriers on the New York-London run and compel them to cut their losses by curtailing flights on less profitable routes elsewhere. Well, surprise. Now that Laker has won permission from the Carter Administration to offer his walk-on shuttle service beginning in late September, his IATA competitors are not only preparing to meet him head-on but suggesting that...
Last week the High Court began hearing arguments on the case. To union officials, it is a crucial test of the government's support for the trade unions. In a characteristic British compromise, Parliament did not empower ACAS to compel employers to recognize unions; ACAS can merely recommend compliance. If the court accepts Ward's basic contention that he cannot be forced to accept APEX, union officials fear there will be a host of legal challenges to ACAS recommendations. Says APEX Official John Wall: "If the court rules that ACAS has no teeth, there will be hell raised...