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...result, by a 2-to-l ruling, Kentucky's vagrancy statute was declared null and void because of vagueness. Louisville's loitering and disorderly-conduct ordinances went down on the same ground. An ordinance requiring permits for parades was found to contain no standards to guide the licensing authorities. A state law against criminal syndicalism included a ban on counseling an unlawful method to accomplish a political end; this, said the court, violated the First Amendment's free-speech guarantee. And since the state conspiracy law could be read to outlaw "such functions as peaceable assembly...
...about Senators who want to limit or end U.S. arms sales abroad; there was also the problem that deliveries already promised are simply not coming through. For at least four years, Washington repeatedly turned down Hussein's requests for some jet fighters. Not until Russia offered the King null at a bargain $70,000 per plane last year did the Administration finally decide to sell Hussein 36 F-104s. The shipment has yet to arrive. The Shah also complained that the U.S. has yet to deliver the two squadrons of F-4 Phantoms that were promised to Iran...
...Next Jan. 31, if all goes according to schedule, a tiny, null palm-fringed speck in the Pacific, some 1,700 miles northeast of Australia, will become the world's newest nation. The Republic of Nauru, administered by Australia as a U.N. trust territory since 1947, will have a native population of 3,000, smallest of any nation state. But what Nauruans lack in numbers they make up with money. They have per capita income of about $4,000, compared with...
Trouble in the Civilian Sector. Still, the European combines have yet to profit from rising civilian demand. Orders for Caravelles, Tridents and null have been disappointing, and British, French and West German manufacturers are struggling to get a medium-distance "Airbus" off the drawing boards. Plans now call for delivery in 1971. In the meantime, U.S. companies may well corner most of the market for subsonic jet transports...
Secrecy. Disclosure of Spain's contract with null marked the end of 21 years of secret and almost byzantine negotiations. For as soon as Spanish geologists found the rich phosphate vein back in 1963, Generalissimo Franco's ministers forbade publication of any hint of the discovery. They had good reason for their reticence. The political situation in northern Africa has long been touchy: both Morocco and Mauritania claim the Spanish Sahara. Occasionally, they have gone so far as to threaten to back up their claims with force. Moreover, Spain has been under mounting pressure...