Word: impendingness
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Capital Punishment. What that will mean in impending cases is not at all certain, but TIME Washington Correspondent Dean Fischer, who covers the court, believes that the new bench will break little fresh judicial ground-thus dooming some far-reaching claims now before it. Fischer predicts that it will decide...
Endless Decade. As passed last week, however, the bill only expresses "the sense of the Congress" that there must be a "prompt and orderly withdrawal" of U.S. forces "at the earliest practicable date." Even so, the long controversy over what is normally a routine authorization became an index of deepening...
Obviously, something important had occurred in China, probably around Sept. 10. Speculation ranged from the possibility of another border confrontation with the Soviets, dismissed by most observers, to the more likely possibility of disagreement over an impending meeting of the National Peoples' Congress. Nothing could be held wholly impossible...
Some, at first, felt a slightly stunned euphoria about Richard Nixon's planned trip to China, a kind of excitement about impending historic change. Vermont Senator George Aiken, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, sees the trip instead as setting off a new round of international anxiety...
A few days earlier, already under pressure to smash the I.R.A., Faulkner had flown to London for a secret meeting with British Prime Minister Edward Heath. Faulkner and Heath agreed to invoke the special powers of preventive detention-i.e., imprisonment without trial-for suspected subversives. Heath attempted to divert...