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There is a rhythm in the history of Watergate. Periodically, the President has managed to stem the tide of investigation and indignation, partly because of his own tactics, partly because of sheer fatigue among his critics and in the country. But inevitably something would occur to weaken his cause further, and that seemed to be happening again last week when, on Friday, the Supreme Court dealt a sharp blow to Nixon's defense. The court announced that it would take the unusual step of bypassing the circuit court of appeals in order to speed a final decision on whether...
Jones catches some moments that have the unmistakable tang of spontaneity: a band of poachers being rooted out, for instance, or an elephant attacking a Land-Rover. These are infrequent, however, and when they do occur are likely as not to have an expository fillip. The feature-length movie is much taken up with wild-animal footage. It was probably intended to convey a notion of the primitive majesty Ross was leaving behind, but after a while it comes to seem like padding, like rather elaborate vacation footage. A true or deep sense of this land, of the people...
...accomplish what fanatics on either side hoped they would: break up the disengagement talks that U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has been conducting between Jerusalem and Damascus. Actually, the terrorism appeared to have had an opposite effect. The horror of what had happened and what else might occur emphasized the necessity for peace. At week's end, after his fourth shuttle round trip of the week, it seemed as if Kissinger was about to make a dramatic breakthrough. U.S. diplomats said that Syria had tentatively agreed on an Israeli proposal for disengagement of the warring forces and were prepared...
...controlled fusion can occur only under conditions of very high temperature and density that researchers have tried for years to produce by using powerful magnetic fields to squeeze or confine isotopes of hydrogen called deuterium and tritium. But even the best of these "magnetic bottles" -which require tremendous amounts of energy to operate-have so far been unable to provide the necessary temperature and density for more than a tiny fraction of a second...
While industrial exposures are being slowly mitigated, it remains to be seen whether or not any steps will be taken to reduce the sort of community exposure that, in its extreme form, began to occur twenty years ago in Johannesburg. Asbestos exposures at Harvard, for example, are no less severe than in other urban communities. A substantial occupational danger exists where University-employed workers sand down old vinyl and asbestos floor tiles to make a flat surface on which to lay new ones. Pipe insulation installers become covered with crumbling asbestos sealants while working in the steam tunnels that connect...