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...part of the 1973 agreement, the Justice Department refrained from forcing him to admit any guilt in the alleged kickback scheme. Ever since 1976, however, Agnew has been fighting off a suit brought by three Maryland taxpayers, one of whom came up with the idea in a Georgetown law school class on legal activism. Their novel theory: the $200,000 in kickbacks that he allegedly took have been held by him "in trust" for the state and should be turned over to its treasury. Including interest, Agnew's liability would total $350,000 if the suit succeeds...
There is little basic difference among styles at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, and Georgetown; only the proportions vary. Slobs are free to compile their own catalogue of clothing: those pictured here are, in contrast, among the finest dressers at colleges on the Eastern seaboard...
...strong Catholic Church, private ownership of 75% of the country's farm land, a flourishing dissident movement. Then, the birth of an independent labor movement last August established a rival power center among the very working masses that the party claimed to represent. Says William Hyland of Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "It is the final demonstration that the [Communist] system does not work. The people it's designed to benefit most have finally said they can't stand it any longer." Should that example spread to other East bloc satellites, it could...
Moscow's apparent strategy, says Georgetown's Hyland, appeared to be aimed at maintaining pressure on the Polish party until the hard-liners could gain control. But obviously the Soviets were as worried and mystified as everybody else. As one jittery Soviet official told a West German diplomat in Moscow, "We must be careful. Nobody knows where this crazy Polish drama is taking us all-not just the Soviet Union, but all of us, East and West alike." -By Thomas A. Sancton...
...their decision, the Justices seemed to be retreating a bit from earlier sex-discrimination decisions that the court now regards as too liberal. The message in last week's ruling, suggests Georgetown Law Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "We didn't really mean to go that...