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...James L. Buckley (R-N.Y.), who initiated the proposal, and Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.) have agreed to meet to discuss changing or delaying implementation of the bill. Aides of Senator Pell said yesterday that the two senators have not yet met and have made no headway concerning the bill...
Jeremy Thorpe's Liberals were watched by both sides with nervous apprehension. Several major papers changed longstanding policies and urged a coalition of one or the other of the major parties with the Liberals. The Liberals never managed to make much headway, however, let alone "change the face of British politics," as Thorpe had promised. "The country is going down the drain, and they are squabbling about the size of the plughole," the Liberal leader complained, but he failed to offer an alternative that many voters considered a sure drain stopper...
Some critics detect a whiff of the unreal about the conclusions. Judge Nanette Dembitz of New York State's Family Court, for example, calls the proposal that can deny visiting rights "blind and untenable." But the book is making headway. In Washington, D.C., Judge Tim Murphy cited it in denying a custody claim by a natural parent. He also heeded the warning on the child's time-sense: once he made up his mind, instead of keeping the parties waiting for a written decision, he ushered them into chambers for an immediate ruling...
...went like that all week for the Government, just as it has since the trial began a month ago: one step forward and another backward. But while the prosecutors seemed to be making little headway in establishing the charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice against Mitchell and Stans, they have been methodically accumulating testimony supporting the less spectacular charges of perjury...
...Maguire Inc., the firm preparing the environmental impact statement on the Kennedy Library for the General Services Administration, made headway this week in clearing its name with the Cambridge community, but announced it faces a new obstacle to its work--a lack of plans for the library...