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...little to support the allegations. He had no need to. Arrested in Houston, Powers had been held incommunicado for several days by Texas Rangers. As a result, his only statement, which might have helped to incriminate him, was inadmissible at the Miami trial; the prosecution had to rely on indirect evidence. Witnesses placed Powers aboard a Miami-bound jet the afternoon of the murder and at the bar. But the Coke bottle never turned up, a palm print of Powers found in Mossler's kitchen could have been days old, and a bloody handprint on Mossler's body...
...only the indirect effects of development according to Heer which lead to an eventual depressing of the birth rate. Heer points to the increased cost of children in an industrial urban society where parents have to pay for the space children take up and the food they eat. In an agricultural society children may be used productively in the farm work, and there is no crucial space problem...
...Other indirect effects of development are reduced child mortality, perhaps the most important single factor, and increased literacy. The latter is usually accompanied by delayed marriage and a more sensitive sophistication which leads to greater acceptance of family planning. Heer thinks that another indirect result of economic development, increasing technology, caused an eight per cent decrease in the U.S. birth rate over the last year with the acceptance of oral contraceptives...
...political puff sheets, permit executives to donate to a political fund as "individuals." Last week the 17-member Senate Finance Committee-four of whose stalwarts are themselves up for re-election-passed a Williams-sponsored amendment to the Viet Nam tax bill aimed primarily at corporations, stipulating that their indirect political donations will no longer be even partly tax-deductible as "business expenses...
Despite his leadership in the area of race relations, Sanford carefully avoids being identified as a civil rights stalwart. Ask him how long it will be before the Negro is accepted, and he will answer, "at least two generations." He advocates restraint and indirect charges as the most effective means of promoting race relations. For him, extremists on both sides merely affirm false notions about the South and the North and endanger the good will among moderates, liberals, and Negroes...