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...Vietnam war has intensified the split and given the Chinese a freer hand in pursuing her own ideological aims. In 1964 and last summer, the Soviets announced that the Chinese could not depend on Soviet military support. These pronouncements, Croan believes, might be read in Washington as an invitation to the U.S. to risk war with China without fear of Soviet intervention...
...longed for the freer life, and just as the Berliner Ensemble was completing a triumphant London engagement, he chose to defect. He easily received a West German passport, a temporary home with his married half-brother outside Cologne, even a job offer. Yet, only eight days after he arrived in the Rhineland's Lorelei-land, he returned to East Berlin. His brother tried to understand. "Christian obviously stood in conflict between his loyalty to the company he loved and his desire to quit East Germany," he said. "I recall a similar experience. In 1945 I was cut off from...
...first year, a student must take six required courses (with no electives), in addition to the Ames competition, during which he prepares to argue appeals and learns to use the vast facilities of a law library. The second year is freer; a student can choose between several courses within an area--economic regulation or law, for example. By the time third year rolls around, except for the requirement of an extensive paper, he is entirely free to choose electives. Then, a student can either specialize or assemble a background of "bread-and-butter" courses, like Estate Planning...
Legal Nuisance. Spater notes that governmental noisemakers such as the Air Force are even freer to deafen their neighbors. For one thing, neither federal nor local government can be sued unless it consents. Some state laws specify that no activity called for by statute "can be deemed a nuisance." And while the U.S. Constitution (Fifth Amendment) guarantees just compensation for private property taken for public use, says Spater, "taken" means invaded by physical action-not mere noise...
Shuman's disappointment was even keener because he felt that Johnson was throwing away a rare opportunity to move toward a freer market. His reasoning: the record 1965 crop was already a virtual certainty, and only proved again that the present control system was unworkable in reducing production. Thus, he figured, Johnson could afford to experiment with fewer controls and if it did not work out, could not be held accountable at the polls for not having made an honest effort to solve the farm problem...