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...resurrect Darwin, and proud Australians seemed to agree that the cost would be worth it. In an editorial the Melbourne Age wrote that it is already anticipating the "time when the city named after the great student of nature's primeval forces [will] rise up again and contend with the wind...
...church doors. In Kanawha County, W. Va., the entire public school system has been disrupted this fall because of parental objections to textbooks. While complaints have been raised about patriotic, sexual and racial contents, the quarrel with the textbooks is very deeply a biblical issue. Fundamentalists all, the parents contend that the schoolbooks breed doubt of the Bible's literal truth. One contested passage compares the scriptural account of Daniel in the lion's den to the old tale of Androcles and the lion. Another suggests that the biblical story of the Tower of Babel is a myth explaining...
...Haldeman before him, that exposure to the prosecution's cross-examination was equally hazardous. Unlike Mitchell, who stubbornly denied his own participation in the coverup, and Haldeman, who could not seem to recall that there ever was such a conspiracy, Ehrlichman's strategy, in effect, was to contend that he had been "deceived" by former President Nixon into taking part, and had no criminal intent...
...Palace (TIME, Dec. 9), a favorite Paris parlor game has been to guess where, how arid with whom the President spends his evenings. Palace officials insist that Giscard's nocturnal wanderings involve nothing more adventurous than dropping in on old friends for a drink and a chat. They contend that his yearning to escape the pressures of office briefly is just a harmless aspect of his much-touted style naturel-the flair for informality that Giscard promised to bring to French politics...
Butz should resign--although if rumors that Ford is preparing for Butz's dismissal are true his resignation may not even be necessary. Ford will have to contend with a constituency that remains fiercely loyal to Butz--the farmers, a group whose interests he has served diligently. Certainly, the Secretary of Agriculture should not ignore the interests of American farmers, but he should not serve them to the detriment of farmers in Asia, Africa and Latin America. American agricultural policies must begin to take the rest of the world into account. One of the Norwegian delegates in Rome suggested that...