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...present [Giscard's] presence in Warsaw as meaning the end of the quarantine in which the Kremlin's leadership has been locked for five months since the rape of Afghanistan." The left-wing Le Matin de Paris suggested that Giscard could be "the first Western leader to consent to a slow process of Finlandization in Western Europe." In a Page One banner, the counterculture newspaper Libération awarded the French President the Lenin peace prize...
...position by a constitutional maneuver aimed at outflanking the mullahs. He presented Khomeini with an emergency program to save the Islamic revolution from "conspiracies." Specifically, he requested authority to appoint a Prime Minister. Khomeini, who has become increasingly irritated at Banisadr's appeals for help, replied curtly, "Consent granted...
They know and do not know, that action is suffering And suffering is action. Neither does the actor suffer Nor the patient act. But both are fixed In an eternal action, an eternal patience To which all must consent that it may be willed And which all must suffer that they may will it, That the pattern may subsist, for the pattern is the action And the suffering, that the wheel may turn and still Be forever still...
...have tended to look down on sex researchers as pushy, ham-handed amateurs, and the arguments for incest will do little to change that view. The literature shows absolutely no attention to psychological realities: that often an adolescent and surely a small child can hardly produce anything like informed consent to an adult it depends on for life and guidance; or that the lifting of the incest barrier would invite the routine exploitation of children by disturbed parents. The sex researchers may get the shocked public reaction they expect, but their arguments are truly too simple-minded to earn...
...million Amoco settlement is by far the biggest in the two-year-old Government investigation of oil-company pricing. Last December, Getty signed a $75 million consent decree; in the preceding 22 months, settlements with a number of companies, including Kerr-McGee, Cities Service, Gulf, Mobil and Phillips, totaled less than $690 million. Although the firms insist that the DOE'S pricing regulations are contradictory, confusing and capricious, the profit-rich energy companies are unlikely to attract much sympathy. Amoco's earnings jumped 70% in the last quarter of 1979 and 40% over the full year. Said Energy...