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...1960s. He fell silent after the signing of the treaty banning such systems in 1972, a grievous mistake, in his opinion, but has taken up the cudgels again in a spate of articles during the past two years. His opinions, as summarized for TIME Correspondent Dick Thompson last week, dismiss contrary opinion as vigorously as ever...
...that Peggy Heckler feels so strongly on the issue of abortion that there's every indication in her answers to the question that she would do anything, including urging on the president the taking of statutory action to overturn the Supreme Court decision." There's no reason to dismiss Packwood's fears Heckler, after all, did say. "I happen to have every little respect for the Roe v. Wade decision. I cannot follow its legal reasoning...
...problem, of course, is that people everywhere start heaving similar signs of relief ("Thank goodness that's all over with now") and looking with great irritation at those of us not ready to ignore or dismiss the various events that argue for a slightly more realistic view. Indeed, those unwilling to follow the standard enthusiastic line on equal rights in America-i.e., those baffled by the notion that the current status of minorities could be widely considered anything but a travesty-such people are labelled cynics, malcontents, subversive...
Northerners inclined to dismiss the case as the atavistic behavior of a small Southern town should keep in mind the murder of 30-year-old William Atkinson in Boston last spring. Atkinson, a maintenance worker, was with a friend when the two were attacked by a gang of bottle-throwing white men, who chased Atkinson into the Savin Hill T station. As he fled down the tracks in terror, Atkinson was struck and killed by an oncoming train...
Ironically, by encouraging complacency about the future availability and price of oil; those who now pronounce the oil crisis and by extension OPEC dead, may help trigger the very out come they so casually dismiss...