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...dams and fac tories, was permitted to preserve a good deal of private initiative at a time when the rest of Russia was being brutally forced into collectivization. After Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956, all of that changed. Georgians were dropped from power in Mos cow, and Khrushchev even tore up a few of Georgia's vineyards, replanting them with his favorite crop, corn...
...encouraging pressure groups to bully the government. When the goldsmiths took to the streets last August to protest against government control of the gold content in jewelry, Indira caved in and relaxed official supervision. Similarly, last week she gave in to the demands of a Hindu sect that cow slaughter be banned by announcing that the government intends to proscribe the killing of cows in those areas of India directly administered by the federal government...
...chews out Adam before he chews on the apple. She wants the grass "shortened." She wants their three-board wigwam painted because she hates brown. Their Eden is no paradise of humor. Adam: "I have to empty the four-pronged white squirter." Eve: "You mean the cow." Eve discovers love, but the snake must have slipped her the lyrics...
...displaced manikin and speaks in tones of liquefied arsenic. Her fraud is that she, too, is a lesbian and has no scruples about luring Childie into ditching Sister George and becoming her private secretary. All she leaves Sister George is an offer to play the part of Clarabelle the Cow in a retch-inspiring kiddie show. At play's end, Sister George sits alone mooing through drunken tears...
Knowledgeable lawyers note other potential dangers. Once the names of the Government's witnesses are made known, the defense may attempt to bribe them, or the Government may try to cow defense witnesses. Many defense lawyers also lambaste the reciprocity requirement. As Houston Criminal Lawyer William F. Walsh puts it: "Why should the defense have to disclose anything in advance when the burden of proof is on the prosecution...