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...their Crimson letter (April 28), the Black Law Students Association and Muhammad Kenyatta enmesh themselves in contradictory statements. Thus they reject the charge I and Professor Orlando Patterson made (April 25), that they used the PLO representative's appearance here on April 20th to thumb their nose at those precious intellectual norms of fairness and free speech, and then proceed unwittingly to reveal that they in fact have very little respect for these norms. I have several reactions to their letter...
...gestures become honed, and his voice pierces effortlessly through the fog of general ignorance. He's pure enough at first to earn the epithet "honest": "Beware, my lord, of jealousy," he says firmly, and villain and councilor splendidly maege. When he cries out in solioquy that he will "enmesh" the Moor, Plummer squceezes himself into the most virile villain ever to singe a stage, a mad master of improvisation, and he rides this evergy,thrillingly, untill his objective is accomplished...
From his palmy refuge, Vesco has been busy spinning an elaborate web of bribery plots that he hopes will somehow enmesh the Carter Administration and result in getting the charges against him dropped. The Justice Department, the FBI, the SEC, a Senate subcommittee and a federal grand jury in New York City are investigating his activities. Vesco's goal, says a high Justice Department official, "is to embarrass the Administration so that he can come back home with immunity from his legal problems...
Though he plans to "walk carefully and not step on anyone's toes," Muskie is determined to be directly involved in policymaking. "The Secretary of State has to be, as far as capacity permits, creative. The problems we face require that ability. I've got to enmesh myself in a lot of details. Ideas are going to be at a premium, and I'm especially going to tap the resources in the State Department...
Overkill. But many scientists argue that not enough has yet been done in basic cancer research. They fear, rightly or wrongly, that an organizational change would enmesh the cancer budget in politics and divert too much money from science efforts to clinical approaches. This fall they picked up an ally in the person of Florida Congressman Paul Rogers, chairman of the House Public Health and Welfare Subcommittee. Rogers drafted a bill to expand cancer research in the NCI within the present NIH-NCI framework. Before the House bill could be reported out, however, some proponents of the Senate bill counterattacked...