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Then too there is Nader's annoying holier-than-thou attitude. In an attempt to shed his dour reputation, Nader in January showed up on TV as host of the zany NBC's Saturday Night Live. In one routine he deadpanned his way through a comic turn satirizing none other than Ralph Nader. The effort backfired in one respect: though the skit was indeed amusing, Nader portrayed himself altogether too accurately as a driven zealot. Congressmen agree that Nader does his homework, but they are repelled by his insistence that his position is the only morally right...
...fails to shake Berger, now 76 and recently retired as a senior fellow in legal history at Harvard. "I've been accustomed to swimming upstream a good deal of my life," he says. Berger concedes it would be "utterly unrealistic" to expect the Supreme Court to reverse its host of 14th Amendment decisions. But tie wants the Justices to leave future cases involving busing, criminal law, obscenity, abortions, libel and voting rights to state courts and legislatures...
Harvard played this half much more aggressively, hounding the Elis closely rather than laying off them when Yale had the ball and passing more effectively through and over the host defenders...
While Jaworski was talking tough in Washington, the Korean government was stonewalling a visiting team of U.S. law enforcement officials in Seoul. Assistant Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti and two associates sought a way to question Tongsun Park, Korea's Washington host with the most, who fled the U.S. before a federal grand jury indicted him on 36 violations of federal statutes, including bribery and fraud. After almost 30 hours of wrangling, during which the Koreans insisted they alone should control the interrogation of Park, the U.S. delegation returned home exhausted, frustrated and emptyhanded...
Anarchists killed U.S. President William McKinley, not to mention a host of European royalty. Even seemingly contemporary techniques of terror have been tested by time. Rebellious Bedouins seized French planes in the 1920s. The first in-flight skyjacking took place in 1931, when a plane was commandeered by antiregime forces during a coup in Peru...