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...most votes would be the President. If no one got more than 40%-a situation that has happened only once in U.S. history*-there would be a runoff between the two who ranked highest. Majority will would always prevail, and a Wallace-like spoiler could no longer threaten to disrupt the system. In practice, however, things might not prove to be quite so simple. As the measure (which, if approved, would still have to be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures) passes to the Senate floor, opponents are arguing that it might well be even more chaotic...
Trampled Seal. The immediate cause of the King's discomfiture was a planned visit to Amman by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco. Arab commandos decided to disrupt the visit to protest U.S. aid to Israel, and the King apparently chose not to stop them. Only a few days earlier, he had vetoed a fedayeen plan to bombard the Israeli seaport of Elath while that city was crowded with Passover tourists, and ordered Jordanian troops to disarm 14 rockets the guerrillas were to have used. The Sisco visit offered Hussein an opportunity to patch things up with...
Last October, members of the Students for a Democratic Society's ultramilitant Weatherman faction battled Chicago police, smashed windows and beat up hapless passers-by in a futile attempt to disrupt the conspiracy trial. Last week a federal grand jury indicted twelve of their leaders for conspiring, and then actually crossing state lines, to perpetrate the bloody violence that stunned the city. Bringing them to trial will be no simple matter: most of them are in hiding...
...Santa Barbara debacle. Beyond oil, Louisiana's largest industries are shrimp and oysters, and the rich Gulf of Mexico beds may have been irreparably damaged by the spill. Scientific tests conducted at Woods Hole, Mass., last week produced the first solid evidence that oil pollution can disrupt the life cycles of marine creatures...
...certainly hope that the hundreds of pedestrians and bicycle riders gathering in the Square won't disrupt traffic," he added with a smile...