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...legislature and no constitution besides the Koran. Religion permeates public life, and the only law of the land is the law of Islam. The Mutawa, or religious police, patrol the streets to make sure that Saudis observe their prayer times and close their shops when they do so. Harsh penalties for crime remain on the books-stoning to death for adultery, beheading for murder, cutting off a hand for thievery-though they are far less frequently applied than they were years ago. As in many other Arab countries, drinking and smoking are nominally forbidden, but police today arrest only...
...Such harsh reactions are not peculiar to campuses. "The President may have fulfilled his pledge to bring us together," says Father Richard J. Shmaruk, a priest in Cambridge, Mass. "There are no lines of division on this any more. Young, old, rich, poor, liberal, conservative-they've all had it." Citizens in the Cambridge area collected 15,000 signatures in three days on an impeachment petition they are planning to present to their Congressman, House Majority Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill...
Although stunned by the harsh American response, the Europeans were not too stunned to offer angry rebuttal. In the first place, complained the Europeans, Washington was insensitive to the Continent's particular oil crisis. The Arab cutback will mean inconvenience and some discomfort for the U.S., which gets only 11% of its oil from the Middle East. For Europe, which imports 72% of its oil from the area, a cutback may mean mass unemployment and economic catastrophe...
...salutation "Dear Mr. President," it started out with a harsher "Mr. Nixon." It also threatened the "destruction of the state of Israel" by Soviet forces if Israel did not stop violating the cease-fire (see THE WORLD). One member of the Johnson Administration recalled that the Russians made similarly harsh threats toward the end of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war; Johnson correctly decided that they never intended to act and ignored them...
Clinging to a harsh war policy in Indochina, besieged by protests at home, this mediocre crew developed an obsession with manipulating public opinion and hiding its procedures and policies. Tapping the telephones of high officials and newsmen for imagined reasons of "national security" led easily into eavesdropping for political purposes. Once the Nixon agents were arrested inside Democratic National Headquarters, the deceitful cover-up came automatically to apparatchiks who did not even trust each other. The writers leave little doubt that they believe Nixon knew all about the concealment...