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...Royal Court, burst in with a message. Scanning the note that had been handed to him, the King turned to his interviewer, TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn. "I suppose," said Hussein with a grim smile, "we should be speaking in the past tense." The King read the dispatch aloud: President Anwar Sadat had withdrawn his delegation from Jerusalem and summoned the Egyptian parliament into special session...
...within a year Congress was fighting back. It passed the symbolically important War Powers Act, which placed tight restrictions on a President's powers to dispatch U.S. troops abroad. It set up the Congressional Budget Office, which, together with the newly expert House and Senate budget committees, acts as a sort of economic shadow cabinet. At the same time, members of Congress developed a new self-confidence and a sense that sound policy can?and should?originate on Capitol Hill as well as in the White House...
Before the government placed a fiveyear banning order on him, Woods was the editor of the East London Daily Dispatch. However, he made more impact through a nationally syndicated column, in which he regularly criticized the apartheid system, Thomson said...
...African Journalist Donald Woods into one of his country's silent men. In retaliation for his antigovernment editorials. Woods, 44, was "banned" for five years-which means that his movements were severely restricted, he was prohibited from returning to his job as editor of the East London Daily Dispatch and prevented from speaking with more than one person (except for family members) at a time. Government agents read his mail, bugged his home and phone, and kept him under general-if irregular -surveillance...
...around is that some demented killer has declared open season on them. Wishfully, the two men want the phantom murderer to choose their wives for his next rifle fodder. Barring that, the pair make a pact. Richard will shoot Henry's wife Rachel (Novella Nelson), and Henry will dispatch Richard's wife Julie (Margaret Ladd...