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Measure of Distress. After several futile attempts to stamp out black-marketeering in the collectives in Vinh Phuc province, Party Theoretician Truong Chinh lamented that "corruption still remains, just like weeds that grow and grow again." The surly dock workers of Haiphong have left tons of cargo to rot and rust on the piers. In the countryside, stubborn peasants joke about Hanoi's efforts to make the collectives work. The latest concerns the government-issued Nam Mot (Model 51) plow. The shoddy, easily broken plow, say the peasants, should really be named "Mot Nam"-meaning one season...
...Republicans from November election troubles, the first signs must begin showing up now. They are doing just that, but the harbingers of a turn have not yet brought any loud cheering. At best, success for the game plan seems likely to be bought at painful cost-in corporate financial distress, in labor turmoil and, worst of all, in the resurgence of a nationalistic import protectionism that threatens to plunge the world into a trade...
Even today, 33 nuncios, 29 pro-nuncios and 16 apostolic delegates represent the Holy See abroad. Nuncios and pro-nuncios, sometimes to the distress of local hierarchies, often deal in church matters as well as with the host state. Apostolic delegates-nondiplomatic personnel assigned to countries where the Pope has no official embassy, such as the U.S.-deal primarily in church matters, but can also be channels of other information to the Pope. Much of the information, reported back to Rome, may eventually reach diplomats accredited to the Holy See; other diplomats can only dream of such grass-roots contacts...
Authorities often practice a political double standard. A Long Island housewife last year found herself in court for protesting the war by flying her flag upside down (the international signal of distress). No action was taken when an American Legion post near by flew its flag upside down to protest Government inaction over the Pueblo's capture. Last month Michael Sauter, 20, was arrested in Topeka for displaying on his car a flag decal with an overlaid peace symbol. The charges were dropped after his lawyer argued that 1) a decal is not a flag, and 2) Topeka police cars...
California's Supreme Court has gone still farther, ruling that insult alone - "intentional infliction of emotional distress" - can constitute cause for legal action...