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...marvelled at my history of infirmity and disease. He grimaced a bit at my answer to the question on my state of health. I had admitted there that "I have had very poor health since the war in Vietnam started. I am often extremely depressed and feel powerless...
...eight-block area in a state of devastation as severe as that of Detroit's ghetto last summer-yet at first Mayor Richard Daley failed, inexplicably, to impose a curfew. In Har lem, gleeful mobs cavorted and Mayor John Lindsay, though unharmed as he walked among them, was powerless to halt the orgy. Sniping, the most feared of ghetto tactics in summers past, was rare; by week's end, riot-connected deaths in the U.S. totaled more than...
...Gaulle is extremely thin-skinned about criticism or ridicule from his fellow Frenchmen. Unlike such helpless victims of the public and press as Lyndon Johnson or Harold Wilson, however, he has found a way to intimidate and punish his critics. In 1881, when the President of France was a powerless and nonpolitical figurehead, the National Assembly passed a law against insulting him "by speeches, cries, threats uttered in public places, or by writings, posters or notices exhibited to the public." In its first 77 years on the books, the law was invoked only nine times. Then, on his accession...
...high court ruled that the noose could be used, since the Smith regime was a de facto government. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor government thereupon asked the Queen to intercede, but her plea was rejected by the Rhodesian high court. "Her Majesty is quite powerless in this matter," said Rhodesian Chief Justice Sir Hugh Beadle, who had hitherto been known as a "Queen's man" for arguing that Rhodesia must maintain residual links with the Crown...
Federal Judge George Hart ruled Thursday that he was powerless to act on a suit challenging the constitutionality of a letter sent last fall to the nation's local draft boards by Selective Service System Director Gen. Lewis B. Hershey...