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When school started this fall, Southie swiftly developed what some residents call a "Belfast mentality," the attitude of a beleaguered and persecuted minority. Southie parents argue that forced busing not only will destroy the concept of community schools but also compel their own children to travel into high-crime neighborhoods. Many Southie Irish Catholics feel betrayed by their own leaders: Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, who has given strong moral support to the busing plan and refuses to let parents enroll their children in parochial schools just to avoid it; Senator Edward Kennedy, whose probusing stand made him a target for curses...
...COMMISSION. Ford could appoint a commission to lay bare the full Watergate story, much as the Warren Commission (of which Ford was a member) studied the assassination of President Kennedy. From Congress, the commission could obtain subpoena power to compel Nixon and his former associates to testify and surrender all of the evidence in their possession. Congress could also give the commission authority to grant witnesses immunity from prosecution so that Nixon's former aides, like himself, could not refuse to testify on the basis of constitutional rights against selfincrimination...
...even longer "before the selection of a jury is begun." All during this agonizing period, Ford reasoned, he would be dogged by public questions about his views on Nixon and on a pardon. Said one of Ford's aides: "The longer it went on, the less candid it would compel him to be. He did not like not giving a straight answer just because it would be impolitic, and he knew he would have to do that...
...details of our lives. It comes because we are forced to witness the mediocrity of our lives, even as we remember with Willy the dreams of better times--dreams so vivid we can almost taste them. And because we shall never cease to hate those things in life which compel a compromise, we shall never learn to make it gracefully, and shall never cease to loathe ourselves for making...
...Government. Even by the distorted standards of Watergate, the case before the U.S. Supreme Court was unique in terms of law, politics and history. The President faced the lawful challenge of a Special Prosecutor he himself had appointed only seven months before. The prosecutor pleaded for a ruling to compel the release of evidence that might hasten Richard Nixon's removal from office by impeachment. The President, through his advocate, sought protection from such an order, plus the court's imprimatur on his very special view of presidential prerogatives...