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...reassure wary whites both inside and outside South Africa, Tambo spelled out more clearly than ever the sort of government the A.N.C. leadership envisions for the country. A majority-ruled regime, he vowed, would guarantee freedom of speech, the press and religion, and would outlaw arbitrary arrests or detentions without charge. An accompanying A.N.C. policy statement emphasized the need for creating new wealth instead of merely redistributing existing assets. While refusing to promise that South Africa's whites would be granted special "minority rights" protection under a black majority, Tambo avoided the harsh rhetoric that marked his speeches...
...American Film Institute and the American Society of Cinematographers have denounced the practice. John Huston has suggested a boycott of products advertised on TV showings of colorized movies. The Directors Guild is looking for legal ways to block colorization. Its British counterpart has simply called on the government to outlaw it. Conspiracy to colorize: three years to life...
Remember Jesse James? He was the outlaw who knocked off trains, shot innumerable law men and stars in movies that air after Letterman...
...admire Jesse, Butch and Sundance just a little bit. We wish, just a little bit, that we too had the guts to line our own pockets with ill-gotten gain. Given the scarcity of unguarded trains and the faintheartedness of most of us, the outlaw lurking in a corner of our psyches is not really cause for worry. It's part of what makes Americans so much...
Mathias was most effective on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he fought off efforts to tinker with the Constitution through amendments to permit school prayer, outlaw abortion and require a balanced budget. He paid for his positions when Republicans won control of the Senate in 1980: conservatives persuaded Strom Thurmond to pass up the job as chairman of the powerful Armed Services Committee and take over Judiciary in order to block Mathias from the post. That maneuver stung Mathias and contributed to his lonely independence...