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...alas, "a little counter-revolutionary vision." Turning to the U.N., he described Albania, sponsor of the successful anti-Taiwan resolution, as "a little, reclusive country composed primarily of rocks and serfs, with here and there a slave master, whose principal export is Maoism." Buckley's recommendation: the President should instruct the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. to abstain forthwith from voting in the General Assembly...
...with unrestrained pleasure that Muller-who neither drinks nor smokes but freely uses four-letter words -refers to himself with the radical epithet Pig. Having heard Mayor Daley instruct his police to suppress demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic Convention, Muller even understands why the epithet is slung: "Personally, I didn't go for most of the antics of the Conspiracy Eight defendants, but if you've been around the courts as long as I have, you know what the Bobby Scales and Abbie Hoffmans were ranting about. You'd have to be deaf, dumb and blind...
...plan until after he became Prime Minister, two months before the attack. "Hirohito alone stood at the top of the mountain," Bergamini writes. "He alone had full access to army planning, navy planning." When it finally came time to decide, Hirohito called in his Lord Privy Seal and said: "Instruct Prime Minister Tojo to proceed according to plan...
...trial, the jury dismissed a murder charge but found Newton guilty of voluntary manslaughter. After he had served 22 months of a two-to 15-year sentence, he won a round: the California Court of Appeals reversed the conviction. It found that the trial judge had failed to instruct the jury that if it believed Newton had been unconscious, it could not find him guilty...
Another possibility is the 50-year-old arrangement of "shared time" or "dual enrollment." In eight states, parochial schools cut their costs by letting their students enroll in public schools for several periods or a half-day each week. There, publicly paid teachers instruct the kids in industrial arts, home economics, physical education and music, and more recently in math, science and foreign languages as well. Communities like Louisville, Ky., and Pittsfield, Mass., send the public teachers directly into parochial-school buildings...