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...next year. The worth of such elections, however, was questioned by opposition politicians. "Plebiscites have a meaning to people who are free," said John Zigdis, a former minister who was jailed for 18 months in 1970 by the junta. "For a bound people, plebiscites are an insult. It is an attempt to make them collaborate in the forging of their chains...
...party has chosen to march to real power by proving itself effective and responsible. Communist mayors preside over a number of cities, including Bologna (pop. 500,000), Italy's best-run metropolis. Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer has denounced the far-leftists as "objective fascists"-just about the worst insult one follower of Marx can hurl at another...
...Tufts rally in the sixth produced one run. The run came on a double play after O'Neill, who was in to get some work, walked the first three batters. By then it was hopeless for the Jumbos, but to add insult to injury, Dave St. Pierre, who came in to pinch hit in the fifth (coach Park was using his bench freely by then) bopped a two-run homer over the left field fence...
...stupidity of the thing that gets me," declared a retired druggist about Watergate. He was one of many who felt that nothing was quite so bad as the insult to the national intelligence, the degrading spectacle of their Government run by men with such small minds...
...being interrupted by close-ups of bits of anatomy--a thigh or a wrist, even a set of armpits. And, for a touch of glamor, there are artistic effects, like Nureyev divided into six images, all kicking each other in the head. This kind of overbearing camerawork is an insult tothe efforts of the performers and to the intelligence of the audience...