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Jimmy Carter had a story to tell his Cabinet a fortnight ago. He had been to New England, Carter said, and the people there, barely out of this year's heavy snow, were scared that they would run short of heating oil next winter. He promised them that there would be enough, that the refineries were beginning to build up winter reserves. He went to Iowa, the President went on, and he found that diesel-oil shortages had developed, and concerned farmers urged that some fuel priority be given for planting, cultivating and harvesting their crops. He promised them...
...Oscar Wilde, "they go to Paris." For anyone who has not planned on the trip, there is the Comédie-Française, a glorious traveling museum that has been presenting French classical drama for 299 years and sees little sense in breaking up a winning combination. A fortnight ago the Comédie opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with Molière's Le Misanthrope as part of a four-week visit to New York and Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. It will also present Feydeau's La Puce à l'Oreille...
...civilians" is more trouble than it is worth. But Sliwa intends to continue the patrols. "It didn't take the muggers long to change their schedule," he notes. Six major subway thefts with violence have lately been committed after special police patrols knocked off work at 2 a.m. Fortnight ago, as Sliwa and two other Red Berets drove off six men trying to rape a woman on a Brooklyn elevated platform, Sliwa disarmed a man with a sawed-off shotgun by using a Kung Fu kick to the head. But he himself spun over the guardrail and fell...
...detention a fortnight ago of Taleghani's sons Abul Hassan and Mojtaba, both of whom have ties with radical political factions, and his daughter-in-law that moved Taleghani into outright opposition to the capricious actions...
...list of lawyers who seek to get their clients out on habeas corpus, and if a name appears more than once or twice, it is sent to the government's security forces. The harsh results have prompted human rights activists to begin keeping lists of their own: a fortnight ago, a visiting delegation of prominent New York lawyers handed the government the names of 99 detained lawyers and 92 others who have simply vanished. Says one Western diplomat: "The right to counsel barely exists in Argentina. Most people are advised that having a lawyer is counterproductive...