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...will be as scrupulously correct−if not as spectacular−as that given Richard Nixon in his historic 1972 visit. U.S. TV technicians have already started work on installations in China for live transmissions. Ford's mornings will be for sightseeing at such likely sites as the Forbidden City and the Great Wall; afternoons will be for meetings, probably with Mao Tse-tung among others, as both sides size each other...
...Forbidden Games, Friday and Saturday...
...death of a patient. Many doctors, after all, are taught to regard death as an enemy and to do all they can to defeat it-or at least to keep it at bay for a while. Many regard "pulling the plug" as an act akin to euthanasia, which is forbidden by both law and the medical code...
...techniques to elicit confessions from political prisoners. An antiterrorist act provides for swift military tribunals with no appeal for those who kill policemen and makes those who criticize the administration of justice liable to prosecution. Even labor unions in Spain are run by the state and strikes are now forbidden...
...issue are interlocking directorates-arrangements under which a director of one company serves simultaneously on the board of another. Interlocking directorates among competing firms have been forbidden since 1914 by Section 8 of the Clayton Antitrust Act. Yet the Justice Department suspects that as many as 400 banks and insurance companies may share directors. Its two civil suits filed last week name the Prudential Insurance Company of America, in Newark, the nation's largest insurance company, which has on its board a director of the San Francisco-based Bank of America, the largest U.S. bank, and another from...