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...brief word on Spanish customs. It may seem astounding to Americans--given the tropical heat that descends on the peninsula at ten in the morning and lasts past sunset--that shorts on women cause men to leer and catcall and local women to dower with contempt and derision. This is uncomfortably true: wearing shorts verges on the suicidal the farther South you go. Spaniards themselves tend, as a rule, to dress in colors that vary little from the funerial: style and colorful dress are equated with loose morals and looser living habits...
Whether they could do that once the unifying emergency passed remained to be seen. The dangerous issues of Basque separatism, terrorism and police repression-all of which figured in the military contempt for democracy-continued to haunt the country. Still unanswered was the most critical question of all: Was the coup attempt a kind of last gasp of the old order-or the first threat of its possible renewal...
Even the title. Contempt of Courtship, shows the effort to squeeze humor from the legal jargon that revolves around the real lives of the show's performers and producers. The formula obviously works for the many law students in attendance, who can laugh at themselves through the sundry charicatures of life at the nation's most prestigious law school...
South African soldiers have nothing but contempt for the idea of a U.N. ceasefire proposal that would replace them with 5,000 peace-keeping troops. Says one officer: "Five thousand men haven't got a hope in hell of monitoring a ceasefire. Before the last South African soldier was back across the border, SWAPO would be in Namibia." However, crossing the Angolan border at will, as South Africa has been doing, could backfire. Third World frustration over Pretoria's failure to make concessions at Geneva has generated renewed demands by black African nations like oil-rich Nigeria...
While working at the Times, Pulitzer prizewinner Hersh had written numerous stories Unking Korry with the Chilean debacle. In one article, he reported that Korry was about to be charged with contempt of Congress for misleading testimony before the Senate committee. Says Korry: "Hersh was the first reporter to stick it to me hard." Admits Hersh: "I led the way in trashing him." When Korry protested to Hersh and other reporters that some witnesses had lied to the Senate committee about his role, only one newsman, Joe Trento of the Wilmington (Del.) News Journal, investigated the case in detail...