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Several Justices feel that they must stay in or near Washington during most of the recess. And any Justice who departs maintains regular contact. Potter Stewart drives daily to the post office in Franconia, N.H., where at first "a few of the Yankees looked pretty skeptically" at the franked manila envelopes that poured in. "I think they wanted to know where the stamps were," says Stewart, who puts in three or four hours of court work seven days a week...
This year, the six-man selection committee also awarded associate fellowships to three foreign correspondents they are: Jim-Hyun Kim of Dong A libo, Seoul, Korea: Jove U. Macaspac Jr. of The Manila Chronicle. The Philippines; and Alfred F. Riev of Die Burger, Caps Town, South Africa...
...talks were known, the effects of the Peking summit on the rest of the world could be assessed only tentatively. In the capitals of Southeast Asia, the unexpected warmth of Peking's welcome to Nixon stirred an undefined apprehension-the feeling, in the words of one Manila newspaper, that "when the big fish swim together, many little fish get swallowed up." Officially, the leaders of Western Europe had little to say about the trip, but they were obviously concerned about how their dealings with Soviet-bloc countries might be affected by the U.S.-Chinese rapprochement. The inward-looking Arab...
Humble Start. Marcos did nothing to help his popularity when he seized on the incident to invoke emergency powers. Warning of a Communist plot to burn Manila and kidnap public officials, he revoked habeas corpus and had nearly 100 people arrested, including a college president. Late last week 11 persons were charged with subversion and gun running...
...explosion at Plaza Miranda that overshadowed everything else. For more than a month, the whole Liberal slate was hospitalized. After the candidates emerged, with crutches, wheelchairs and bandages, their campaign appearances resembled a mobile hospital ward. Ramon Bagatsing, who was elected Manila's new mayor last week, had lost a leg; Senator Jovito Salonga, another winner, received extensive shrapnel wounds. A Manila businessman observed: "It was like watching a hospital scene on television. But it will work for the Liberals, all right...