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...inheritance of Kennedy's popular support is problematic. Many of his partisans, stunned and embittered, have already forsworn further interest in the outcome of the election-an attitude that would hurt the Democratic candidate in November. Yet thousands of former R.F.K. backers in organized labor and among Negroes, Mexican-Americans and urban ethnic groups will undoubtedly gravitate to Humphrey. Students, intellectuals and antiwar Democrats who favored Kennedy will probably wind up with McCarthy...
...breed of specialists-have hardly begun to consider their ramifications. What happens, for example, if a civilian British scientist should kill an American or a Russian astronaut on the moon? Who would arrest whom, and what court of what country would have jurisdiction? Despite the fact that nations have forsworn territorial rights on celestial bodies, questions of property rights are bound to arise when exploration and interplanetary travel increase. The French have already raised one question: What happens if one nation establishes a mining camp en the moon and starts sending back valuable samples to the earth for analysis...
...liberalization" as a cultural safety valve, they also realize that in the current Sino-Soviet ideological fracas, it is necessary to impose a certain amount of discipline in order to close ranks behind Moscow. Anxious to avoid the stigma of Stalinism, the satellite governments have for the present forsworn arrest and imprisonment in favor of less drastic measures, such as "educational" discussions of "erroneous views." Items...
Most other observers agree. One of the most intelligent of all new African leaders, Teetotaler Kaunda, who was trained as a teacher, has staunchly forsworn violence in the ten-year struggle to dissolve the now-extinct Central African Federation, in which Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland were reluctant partners with white-dominated Southern Rhodesia. Zambia, as Northern Rhodesia will be called after independence, will be a multiracial society in which, promises Kaunda, "the rule of law shall prevail and no individual is going to be victimized because of his country of origin...
...question that Britons will answer at the polls is whether the Earl who has forsworn his titles will in fact not seem less of an anachronism than Harold Wilson, who brags that he is "classless" but harps on class consciousness. Home may well seem to many Britons a symbol of the bad old days, when privilege meant power without responsibility. On the other hand, Labor's new order would create its own privileged class, one that has had little or no experience of power and would owe its primary responsibility to the state...