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...have been criticized in print. By a vote of 9 to 0, the court ruled the Florida statute unconstitutional because of "its intrusion into the function of editors." Decisions as to what is or is not published, the court said, cannot be dictated by Government. But other legal problems persist. This spring a committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors warned that press successes in Watergate would not diminish challenges by legislatures, law-enforcement officials and grand juries. Many journalists fear that Watergate has created a backlash against a press perceived as having grown too powerful...
...Without agrarian reform, the almost inhuman misery of the rural workers will persist," he has said. "Without banking reform, little will be done for the development of the country, and without fiscal reform, the rich will continue to grow richer while the poor will continue to suffer...
...include 13 white civilians, 102 black civilians, 45 Rhodesian and South African military men, and 311 guerrillas-20 of them killed last week. Three Rhodesian air force planes have been lost in the past two months. The government claims that all three losses were due to accidents, but rumors persist that a rebel missile accounted for one of the planes (a Canberra light bomber) and that rifle fire brought down the other two. The guerrillas get funds from the Organization of African Unity and from China and Russia, which also supply arms...
...embargo on oil exports last October-and it could still have one now that tankers are again unloading Arab petroleum at American refineries. Indeed, unless Americans continue the conservation habits they learned during the embargo crisis and push hard to develop alternate sources of energy, nagging scarcities could persist far into the future...
Doctors would scarcely touch them (many still refuse to treat them), and the law looked upon them as human vermin who had to be swept off the streets and thrown into drunk tanks. Old attitudes still persist, but within the past five years there has been a remarkable change in prognosis. No miracle cure, no equivalent of the Salk vaccine is in sight for the alcoholic, and none is ever likely to be found; but for every one of the many alcoholisms there is at least one treatment or combination of treatments that offers a good chance of cure...