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...whether and how the issues can be narrowed." He and the committee Democrats caucused and agreed that St. Clair would be permitted to sit in on the presentation of evidence. Rodino said he would also convene the committee in the second week after the recess to "adopt rules to govern its procedures during the evidentiary hearings...
...kind of mind that fuses nature and art and life into a single, albeit often inconsistent vision. Being a planter, a statesman and a poet all at the same time is an attractive idea to Southerners because it implies having a unified, romantic world-view, where the things that govern men are the same things that govern poetry and nature. With this way of looking at the world, Percy could write about politics in one sentence, Greek drama in the next, and "the savage nature and austere beauty of the river" after that...
...President Nixon to resign, Senator James Buckley neither denounced Nixon nor prejudged the President's role in the Watergate scandal. The New York Conservative based his call on a tough assessment of the probability that Nixon has already been so irreparably damaged by the affair that he cannot govern effectively. Excerpts...
OPTIMISTIC RADIO assertions notwithstanding, the governmental crisis in Israel is far from over. In fact, while Golda Meir's decision to withdraw her resignation and remain as Prime Minister solved the immediate problem of who would form a government, the inability of the Israeli political power-structure to produce a viable alternative underlined a more fundamental problem. The ideological divisions in Israel are so deep that no group can muster enough support to govern effectively...
...will be traded for unreliable promises. Polls have shown that the majority of Israelis still believe that the Arabs' ultimate aim is to destroy the state. Such a sentiment precludes a major shift to the left. So while the right's leadership cannot convince the public that it can govern, the left is also unable to achieve significant popular support...