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Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 in favor of the snail darter's right to life. Wrote Chief Justice Warren Burger: "The plain intent of Congress was to halt and reverse the trend toward extinction." In dissent, Justice Lewis Powell noted dryly that this meant vital federal projects would have to be canceled if they "threaten some endangered cockroach." Indeed, the decision could affect at least eleven other projects, including the proposed $690 million Dickey-Lincoln Dam in Maine, which would endanger the Furbish lousewort, a rare plant that resembles the snapdragon...
...force, which is still operating in the northeastern part of the country, and have been regarded as a dangerous fifth column directed by Hanoi. The government of Prime Minister Kriangsak Chamanand is determined not to allow a second wave of Vietnamese refugees to become a focal point for future dissent within Thailand...
Some of Carter's bluntest phrases were directed at Moscow's repressive treatment of internal dissent. Clearly referring to the seven-year sentence recently imposed on Helsinki Human Rights Monitor Yuri Orlov, Carter declared that the Soviets' abuse of such rights had earned them "the condemnation of people everywhere who love freedom." "By their actions," Carter added, "they have demonstrated that the Soviet system cannot tolerate freely expressed ideas, notions of loyal opposition and the free movement of peoples. The Soviet Union attempts to export a totalitarian and repressive form of government, resulting in a closed society...
...When telephoned by such senior aides as Hamilton Jordan, Press Secretary Jody Powell or Congressional Liaison Chief Frank Moore, Cabinet members were to respond as if the President himself were calling. Full debate was fine before a policy was set, Carter said, but once a decision was made, public dissent or anonymous leaking would be viewed as disloyalty...
Would all this dissent have much effect on the party leadership? Not immediately. Commenting on Marchais's speech, L 'Humanité insisted that the address proved that "serious, interesting and positive discussion is unfolding within our party." Marchais himself, when he first heard the rumblings within his ranks, magnanimously announced that "no heads would roll" because of it. That seems a safe bet in his own case, since no one expects any changes in the rigid party leadership any time soon. But if the party continues to learn nothing and forget nothing about the changing shape of France...