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...without a story. There was, of course, to be a story, and a fairly salacious story at that. The women's basketball squad took to the road yesterday afternoon, heading for the Big Apple and a rollicking Ivy League battle against Barnard College, an almost guaranteed win sure to hearten team members and fans alike in their pursuit of a .500 season...
...amendment. Their cries of alarm only draw attention to the sad disarray into which American liberals have fallen. Calculating that they could not win a popular battle, they are calling in law professors and raising a standard in defense of a constitution which is in no danger. It would hearten those who agree with their basic stand against a balanced-budget amendment if they dropped the scare tactics and fought the issue out where it belongs, not in legal briefs, but in the legislatures and polls...
Nonetheless, Solzhenitsyn's example may in fact hearten rather than discourage Russia's libertarians. Last week Sakharov and nine other prominent dissenters issued an impassioned defense of Solzhenitsyn's actions: "His so-called 'treason' consists of his disclosure to the whole world, with shattering force, of the monstrous crimes committed in the U.S.S.R. not very long ago." They demanded the publication of Gulag in the Soviet Union and called for an international investigation of the crimes against innocent Soviet citizens...
...Israeli citizens, who already pay the highest income taxes in the world (62% on amounts over $10,000). The demurrers also feel that the spectacular party will be an unnecessary flaunting of Israel's military might at a time when a slightly lower profile might encourage and hearten its friends abroad...
Such advice can scarcely hearten Chile's workers, who already have sacrificed much for Allende's brand of socialism. Food prices have soared, and many commodities are in short supply. Beef is available in stores only on weekends. If the government has its way, only a dribble of the country's wine output will be available in Chile; the bulk will be sold abroad to provide badly needed foreign-currency reserves...