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...Peking was unwilling or unable to clear up the strange events that had overtaken the regime on the eve of its most important annual celebration. Most outside experts were still convinced that the mystery reflected a struggle for power within the Forbidden City, one that could eventually affect China's new outward-looking foreign policy, or Richard Nixon's trip, or other developments in progress. Instead of falling into place, however, the pieces of the Chinese puzzle seemed only to multiply...
...regional governments formed and the Federal Government restructured. Or, after the economic freeze, a new, domestic Marshall Plan to rebuild the cities. None of these vistas is much more implausible than that of Richard Nixon waving to a million smiling Chinese as he glides through the gates of the Forbidden City in Peking...
...several days, the Chinese had everyone wondering just what was going on in the Forbidden City. The parade had evidently been canceled because the leadership was unwilling or unable to present itself for inspection, but beyond that no single explanation seemed to answer all the questions raised by Peking's mysterious behavior...
Gerardo Mendez, chancellor of the Mexican consulate in Boston, said that even if a lawyer helps Hyland get released on bond, he will be forbidden to leave Mexico City before his trial. He added, however, that under Mexican procedures it will be increasingly difficult to win release on bond as time goes...
...laws are under challenge in the courts on the grounds of vagueness, violation of the right to privacy, and the denial of individual rights. Wisconsin's law is under a cloud; no final ruling has yet been issued on the constitutional question, but a U.S. district court has forbidden the prosecution of a Madison gynecologist for operating an abortion clinic. California law is also the subject of a court test as pro-and anti-abortion forces battle over an appellate court decision overturning part of the state's liberalized...