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...Justice Department contended that the dismissal will affect only Wayte's case and that it will promptly appeal the ruling. But Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe, a constitutional expert, sees both the Carter waiting-period violation and the selective-prosecution issue as serious threats to the registration law. "They were picking people who had visibly distinguished themselves by their political views," Tribe noted. "This is a classic clash between the Government's interest in controlling a movement and First Amendment rights...
...potential reserves at a conservative 100 million bbl. Since then, the projections have been rising quickly. Just last week a Chevron vice president declared that the new field could contain up to 300 million bbl. Other industry estimates put it as high as 500 million bbl., and one Government expert says the ultimate potential could be 1 billion bbl. Such heady forecasts have drillers scrambling. Texaco is already operating the Glomar Atlantic, a drillship, in the area, and Phillips has dispatched a rig from Africa's Ivory Coast to help with the exploration. Last week Exxon requested federal permission...
Huge hits, big flops; elation and depression; glut and famine. Hollywood looks more than ever like a boom-or-bust town. But there is more than meets the eye, cautions one industry expert: "The studio bosses aren't worried that an entire season can now go by without their releasing a single big picture. They're more concerned with fighting a bigger war, for a potentially bigger market: television." In the past two weeks, all six major studios were moving in on pay cable: Columbia, MGM/UA and 20th Century-Fox are reportedly dealing to buy into Showtime...
...American studies, on the other hand, is systematic and thorough. There are more teachers of English in the U.S.S.R. than there are students of Russian in the U.S. The prestigious Institute of U.S.A. and Canada in Moscow has an estimated 300 staffers doing research on the U.S. One expert says this is more than all the combined total of Slavic faculty members at the dozen U.S. universities that lead in Soviet studies...
Most economists doubt the West can agree on sanctions that would truly hurt the Soviets. Says Richard Kaufman, a Soviet expert with the Congressional Joint Economic Committee: "The U.S. cannot build an economic wall around the Soviet Union." Moscow evaded the U.S. grain embargo by boosting imports from Argentina, Australia and Canada...