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...questions about its legal or moral ramifications. One question suggested by Graham: "Should the Government officially adopt a program dedicated to telling lies?" Another, clearly, is how the courts should cope with the problem of $1,000 monthly payments and occasional $35,000 relocation bills for witnesses who are forbidden to accept "improper inducements" for their testimony...
...1930s, set out on what seemed like a simple courtesy call on Mao's politically ambitious widow, Chiang Ch'ing. Accompanied by some aides from one of his commands, the elite 15,000-man palace guard, Wang strode into Mme. Mao's sumptuous villa in the Forbidden City - and promptly arrested her. A few hours before, he had taken into custody Party Vice Chairman Wang Hung-wen and two other Politburo figures - the other three members, along with Mme. Mao, of the celebrated Gang of Four...
...beneath Australia's remote, forbidding northern wilds is one-fifth of the world's known reserves of uranium, but they have been of no use to atomic-power plants. The government, fearful that mining would damage the Australian environment and that exports might encourage nuclear proliferation, has forbidden exports since 1973. Last week, however, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser decided to permit mining companies to develop and export the mammoth lode...
...leader of the Sikhs in eastern India and comparable in status to Bhajan Backer Tohra, last week denounced Bhajan's claims. He and his council professed to be "shocked" at Bhajan's "fantastic theories." Yoga, Tantrism and the "sexual practices" taught by Bhajan, the council declared, are "forbidden and immoral...
...flying. For a while, TM's executive governors offered to arrange live demonstrations for the cynics if ten observers would pay a total of $ 1,000 for the privilege. When those conditions were accepted in at least two cities, Toronto and Montreal, headquarters sent word that demonstrations are forbidden because they are undignified. Says John Konhaus, who represents the Maharishi's team of governors in the U.S.: "No one wants to become a circus performer. Our people are at a delicate stage of growing. We aren't out to teach flying. We are teaching full development...