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...when we see it," one network censor told a writer. By the time the court hands down a ruling in the Writers Guild suit, everybody's trying to dump off the idea on everybody else. You almost wish that Cowan's side had lost the case. Maybe his weak-kneed call for "more modest regulatory reforms" would have more punch to it. Cowan tells us that "while it would be technically simple to establish a system that relied less heavily on advertising, the opposition from advertisers and the broadcasting industry would almost certainly make such a proposal politically unacceptable...
...choked her. "I decided to submit to him, to what he wanted." John Rideout admitted that they had been arguing, but he told a different story: "She hit me first. She slapped me. I grabbed hold of her arms. She slapped me again. Then I felt pain. She had kneed me in the groin." Soon afterward, he said, they made up, kissed and had sex. "It was voluntary on her part," he insisted...
...claims that John chased her through a field near their apartment building, dragged her inside and raped her as their 2½-year-old daughter watched and cried, "Mommy, Mommy!" Defense Lawyer Charles Burt admitted that sexual intercourse took place, but he denied that John had used force. Greta kneed her husband in the groin, Burt told the jurors, and John then slapped her in the face. The defense portrayed the young couple's rocky four-year relationship as "quarrel, make up, have...
...Taiwan's longtime friends in the Senate were furious over the rapprochement with Peking. Utah Republican Orrin Hatch contemptuously called Carter's foreign affairs advisers "loose-jointed and weak-kneed diplomats" and declared that the President should have held out for a better deal on Taiwan. Said Hatch: "All he had to do was stand fast. Mainland China needs this relationship more than the U.S. does." Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater accused Carter of having committed "one of the most cowardly" presidential acts in history and threatened to sue him in court on the questionable ground that a President cannot cancel...
...WEEK, Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the Kennedy School of Government, rejected a Kennedy school student resolution signed by more than half of the school's students calling for a renaming of the Engelhard Public Affairs Library. Allison's response--another in a long line of weak-kneed administration statements regarding student demands that Harvard end its de facto support of the South African government--is disappointing, though not surprising...