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...famous victory, of course, when George Washington and a doughty band of patriots crossed the ice-choked Delaware River on Dec. 25, 1776, and went on to rout the Christmas-dazed Hessians in Trenton, N.J. Indeed it has become a bit too famous, in the view of many residents of Hopewell Township, N.J. (current population 12,000), where Washington came ashore. They fear vast armies of Americans will mark the Bicentennial by descending on their rural area, which is the home of Washington Crossing State Park. Local estimates are that as many as 4 million visitors may come...
Congress has requested that the CIA hold on to all evidence that could be useful to the Church committee investigation, but an exception may have to be made in the toxin case. According to the U.N.'s Biological Weapons Convention, the U.S. Government has until Dec. 26 to get rid of all biological warfare materials. Probably the best solution was proposed last week by Murdoch Ritchie, a Yale pharmacology professor and an expert on saxitoxin. Since it is invaluable for the study of such diseases as multiple sclerosis, Ritchie urged that the CIA's costly trove...
Marta Neira, a 29-year-old model, was arrested last Dec. 9 in Santiago by DINA, Chile's brutal secret police. According to a prisoners' report smuggled out of the Pirque Women's Prison, when Marta was last seen inside the Quilen detention center on Christmas Eve 1974, her nose was broken and she had welts all over her body. She had been subjected to electric shocks and to sexual abuse...
...rechristened such items as a giant-size box of Tide as 37000-91220 and a can of Campbell's tomato soup as 51000-00011? They are part of an automated pricing and check-out system that food-industry officials hope will one day yield impressive cost savings (TIME, Dec. 30). Though it is still experimental, consumer groups are already opening fire on the system, which they fear will confuse shoppers by eliminating price markings on the products themselves. Yet a case can be made that the protesters are missing the really distressing significance of the codes: they...
...this might be treated as one man's opinion were not Jack Preus also president of the 2.8 million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. For six years, mustering a solid majority of conservatives in his church, Preus has been increasingly successful in making such scriptural fundamentalism (TIME cover, Dec. 30) the single acceptable norm for the church's clergy. Last week, at the denomination's biennial convention in Anaheim, Calif, he won another victory. The delegates voted to give him the power to depose a group of dissident leaders: eight of the church...