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Freedom, in other words, is a case of divided loyalties, not only in its subject matter -- a nation at bitter war with itself -- but in its execution. For in trying to pay equal respect to the demands of truth and fiction, Safire strands his novel in a no-man's-land between concrete facts and illuminating imagination. He recognizes this dilemma and tries to pass it off as a virtue: "The reader of any historical novel asks, 'How much of this is true?' " But many readers surely have more urgent questions, such as "How much of this is vivid...
Since then the debate has swirled around legislation that would amount to an equal-rights amendment for homosexuals, who already enjoy antidiscrimination guarantees in the civil and diplomatic services. The government has promised to produce a bill this autumn that will outlaw antihomosexual discrimination in housing and in the hiring of teachers in public and private schools. Many Catholics, as well as members of Lubbers' party, frown on the prospect of parochial schools being told they no longer have the right to choose their instructors, and the legislation's fate is uncertain...
...perhaps the most impressive aspect of last week's commotion was that it was not all that unusual -- not by current standards anyway. There have been many weeks of nearly equal, and a few of even greater, frenzy since the bull was born. What is truly stunning is the cumulative effect of all those bang- bang weeks. At Friday's close the Dow Jones industrials had zoomed up more than 1900 points over five years; prices of the 30 stocks in the average had multiplied roughly 3 1/2 times from...
...between 1949 and 1961. But all those bull markets rose from far lower price levels; in dollar terms there has never been anything remotely resembling the current market binge. The Wilshire Index of the combined value of 5,000 stocks has climbed $2.2 trillion in the past five years, equal to half the U.S. gross national product of $4.4 trillion...
Well, not quite. Still in effect are the equal-time rule, which requires broadcasters to provide equal time to competing candidates for public office, and a provision obliging stations to cover issues of importance to the local community. So what will actually change? At larger stations, probably very little. Says Dennis FitzSimons, general manager of Chicago's independent WGN- TV: "Our policy has always been to air opposing views and to be fair." But smaller stations may be a different matter. For instance, under the old rule, says Robert L. Foss of the Florida Association of Broadcasters, many small operators...