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...Salem Women's Crisis Service, which advised her to call the police. That would have been unthinkable not only in Galsworthy's England but even in Oregon until last year. Common law and most U.S. statutes were clear: with the marriage vows came the assumption of sexual consent. But encouraged by women's rights advocates, the Oregon legislature changed the state's rape law in 1977 to remove marriage or cohabitation as a defense. So the police arrested John, 21, an unemployed cook, and charged him with raping his wife. Last week John found himself...
...been stopped earlier by the police or the CIA. Yet France's daily Le Monde, which is frequently critical of American policy, found the massacre "unAmerican." Said the paper: "It would have been inconceivable, and without doubt unrealizable on the victims' own soil, with or without their consent. It was necessary to uproot them, to transport them to the heart of the jungle, to transform them into prisoners of a delirious faith in a messiah, who in the end would give free rein to his instincts for domination and death for them to become self-destructive robots." Perhaps...
Under U.S. law, the President picks federal judges with the advice and consent of the Senate. Under a practice known quaintly as senatorial courtesy, the process has traditionally worked the other way around. A Senator can blackball a nominee to the federal bench in his home state simply by returning a "blue slip" to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senate colleagues invariably honor the blue slip, so Presidents long ago learned to let Senators do the choosing...
...some 100 other Anglican women hoping to be ordained, the most frustrating news was left unsaid: by church mandate, the issue cannot be formally reconsidered until a new synod convenes in 1980?and even then, with a crushing load of other business to settle, the Anglican leaders may not consent to hear the women's case until 1983 or later...
...declared their opposition to recognition of Peking if it entails ? as it almost surely must ? abrogation of the defense treaty with Taiwan. Just before the Congress recessed in mid-October, Barry Goldwater of Arizona introduced a resolution that would require the Administration to get the advice and consent of the Senate before it could abrogate any post-World War II mutual defense treaty. Goldwater maintains that since ratification of the 1955 treaty required approval by two-thirds of the Senate, abrogation would require the same ma jority. If Carter seeks to act without consulting Congress, Goldwater told TIME...